Western Photograph Collection

Posted on October 25, 2019 Updated on February 24, 2020

by Angie Cope

The AGS Library has a collection of albumen prints and stereoscopic slides by the photographers of the four great western surveys. These works include: 64 prints by William Henry Jackson, photographer with the Hayden Survey of Yellowstone, the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and the Moqui Indian Pueblos of Arizona; 6 prints of the Grand Canyon region by John K. Hillers, photographer with the Powell Survey; 49 prints and stereoscopic slides by William Bell, photographer with the Wheeler Survey; and 441 prints and stereoscopic slides by Timothy O’Sullivan, photographer with the King and Wheeler Surveys. Also included in this collection are 54 mammoth size prints of Yosemite by Eadweard J. Muybridge and 76 prints by Carleton E. Watkins.

A group of educators are coming in for a scheduled tour giving us a great chance to see some of these beautiful photographs.