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Dark Room on Wheels

Dark Room on Wheels

William Henry Jackson
Jackson Brother Photographers, Omaha
1868

In addition to his studio work, Jackson frequently ventured out to photograph Pawnee and Omaha life. He ingeniously adapted the bulky wagons used during the Civil War to devise a mobile processing station to develop negatives and photographs in the field.

Gelatin bromide print on paper. H 13, W 17.5 cm
Scotts Bluff National Monument, SCBL 2787