William Henry Jackson
ca. August 23 – 24, 1870
In addition to Jackson's photography, the 1870 season also employed the Hudson River School painter Sanford Robinson Gifford.
Members depicted include: (standing l-r) John "Potato John" Raymond and "Val," cooks; Sanford R. Gifford, landscape painter; Henry W. Elliott, artist; James Stevenson, assistant; H.D. Schmidt, naturalist; E. Campbell Carrington, zoologist; L.A. Bartlett, general assistant; and William Henry Jackson; (sitting l-r) C.S. Turnbull, secretary; J.H. Beaman, meteorologist; Ferdinand V. Hayden, geologist in charge; Cyrus Thomas, agriculturist; Raphael, hunter; and A.L. Ford, mineralogist.
Photograph taken at Red Buttes, Wyoming at the junction of the North Platte and Sweetwater Rivers.
Glass slide. H 10, W 8 cm
Scotts Bluff National Monument, SCBL 703