[Albertype views from the Hayden Geological Survey, 1870, 1871]

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1870

"This was to have been Vol. IV of the Hayden Survey volumes. The project was burned in a fire at Bierstadt's in 1874. At least 3 other copies of this set exist: 1 at the Denver Public Library (34 plates), 1 at the National Museum in Washington, and 1 sold at the Metropolitan Auctions in New York in 1995. All are incomplete with varying numbers of plates. Page 8 of the Hayden Survey Annual Report for 1873 states that: 'vol. IV, part 1 will contain about one hundred illustrations, printed by the albertype process from photographic negatives taken by Mr. Jackson.'..."<br><br>Also includes Hanson research material and correspondence [38 leaves in envelope] concerning the Hayden Expedition collection in the Denver Public Library "In a letter William Henry Jackson sent to Robert S. Ellison in 1924, now in the collection of the Denver Public Library, Jackson said that he believed a few incomplete sets may have been put together for private distribution after the fire destroyed Bierstadt's shop."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 48