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LOT 11948 contains photographic prints made by the Library of Congress from original Jackson dry plate and nitrate negatives, or from negatives of photographic prints made from the original nitrate negatives.
Item-level titles, captions, and other data derived from information found with the images.
Includes index.
"The Imperial Frontier, 1896-1924." In William Henry Jackson and the transformation of the American landscape / by Peter B. Hales. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1988, chap. 7.
Collection features views of various types of transportation, such as elephants, horses, sledges, sedan chairs, jinrickishas, and railroads, in North Africa, much of southern and eastern Asia, Australia, Oceania, and Russia. Featured also are various types of facilities, such as city and town halls, mosques and temples, railroad stations, and tea plantations. Collection also includes panoramic views of cities; street and harbor scenes; landscapes; as well as portraits of local inhabitants, contract laborers, and Commission members.
Digitized images of all items in the collection and their associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
Digitized images were also available through the Library of Congress Web site under title: Around the world in the 1890s, photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896. This finding aid in electronic form, with reproductions, captions, and subject indexing for each image, was produced in late 1990 for the National Digital Library Program, American Memory collections; closed in 2013.
LOT 11948 contains photographic prints made by the Library of Congress from original Jackson dry plate and nitrate negatives, or from negatives of photographic prints made from the original nitrate negatives.
Railroad publicist Joseph Gladding Pangborn organized the World's Transportation Commission to gather information about foreign transportation systems, especially railroads, for the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. The Commission began its tour in Tunis in late 1894, and finished in Russia in 1896. William Henry Jackson was the official photographer for the trip.
Finding aid available in electronic form.
Many of Jackson's images were published in: "Around the World," a travel series, in Harper's weekly.
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