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Printed on recto: "156." Standing figure identified as John Moss, sitting figure Ernest Ingersoll. Title appears on lower-left corner of print. Inventory number on print corresponds to W.H. Jackson's 1874 series, recorded in the 1875 Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (Miscellaneous Publications - No. 5). Identifications from related prints and negatives at the Smithsonian.
American photographer, artist and explorer, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) is known for his iconic Indian portraits and landscape photographs of the American West. After working for the Union Pacific Railroad and the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) throughout the 1870s, Jackson moved to Denver in 1879 and opened a commercial studio. There he continued to photograph the West, taking on many side projects photographing for hotels and railroad companies like the Mexican Central, New York Central, and the Baltimore & Ohio.