Jackson, (W)illiam (H)enry. JACKSON'S FAMOUS PICTURES (THE WHITE CITY - AS IT WAS). Text by Stanley Wood. White City Art Co., Chicago and Denver, 1896. This edition was published in parts subsequent to the edition issued as "The White City - As it Was." This copy is a bound edition comprising the introduction by Wood, 80 plates printed on one side only, and four pages of text at the end. Oblong Folio, 3/4 black leather with gold tooled and lettered spine, over gold-lettered black cloth, text and 80 black and white plates, after photographs by Jackson of the buildings and grounds of The White City - the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1892 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discover of America. A magisterial production. Some scuffing to the leather, the front free endpaper with wrinkling, some foxing to the endpapers; The internals are Fine. The following is quoted from the website of Brigham Young University: "William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, was one of the most renowned 19th Century landscape photographers of the American West. He was a man of great energy and love for the outdoors and especially the breadth and heights of the mountain west. His life spanned the first century of the new visual art of photography and the great era of westward expansion. He began his photography career in 1858 in New York as a photographic retouching artist in the burgeoning photography industry and ended it in New York City with his death in 1942. In between these years he became increasingly proficient in his chosen field through his studio and field work in Omaha, NE, his nine year odyssey as the official photographer with Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden's United States Geological Survey of the Territories, his 15 years in Denver, CO, 17 months of Asian and Pacific travel with the World Transportation Commission, his 27 years in Detroit associated with the Detroit Photographic Company and its successor the Detroit Publishing Company, and finally his highly productive "so-called" retirement years from 1924-1942." The following is quoted from the website of Chicago Imagebase Project of the Department of Art History, The University of Illinois, Chicago: "A dispute between Charles Dudley Arnold and the Directors of the Fair traced itself tortuously back to the first contracts making Arnold the official photographic concessionaire of the Exposition. Arnold had take
