JACKSON Laguna Indians carrying Pottery 1900

JACKSON Laguna Indians carrying Pottery 1900
DETROIT PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHING COMPANY 5275 Going for Water, Pueblo of Acoma, N.M., Ca. 1898 20.8x17" Hand Colored textured Gelatin Silver or Platinum Print ASG# DPC/2658 mounted on 30.5x23.5" heavy whitish paper with decorative label containing title and credit copyright top left corner of mount.

Beautiful decorative colored photograph showing the traditional Laguna pottery filled with water and carried on their heads by Laguna women.

William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) trained as an illustrator and painter before picking up the camera shortly after the Civil War. He worked as a bullwhacker before setting up his first photography studio in Omaha. By 1867 he was taking pictures of the local Pawnee Indians. In 1869 he was taking landscape views along the route of the Union Pacific Railroad. The scientist and Geologic Survey leader, F.V. Hayden, met Jackson at this time and hired him to be the official photographer of the Hayden Survey. Jackson's photographs of Yellowstone from the early 1870s aided in its becoming the nation's first National Park. In 1879, his work for the Hayden survey ended and he opened a studio in DenverDetroit Photographic Company. From his origins as an illustrator Jackson liked color and often hand painted his albumen prints in the 19th century. Jackson's photographic business in Denver was the most successful photographic enterprise in the West during the 1880s and 1890s. His next enterprise was the Detroit Photographic Company that made and distributed photographically generated color views printed like lithographs off stones the prints were called Photocroms. They also sold many hand-tinted gelatin silver and platinum prints. The company closed in bankruptcy in the mid-1920s.
Condition: Excellent. Minor wear, top and bottom of mount margins have some water stains, no impact on print