# Grand Cañon of the Colorado

- By: William H. Jackson (born Keesville, NY 1843-died New York City 1942)
- Date: ca. 1880
- Medium: albumen silver print
- Classification: Photographs
- Dimensions: sheet and image: 21 1/8 x 16 7/8 in. (53.7 x 42.8 cm.)
- Culture: Colorado River
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=34267)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3c01575db639e3a03af1db9f29615864.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

William Henry Jackson spent the years between 1870 and 1879 as the official photographer for Ferdinand V. Harden’s U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. While working on this federally supported expedition, Jackson photographed the largely unsettled Western frontier, including the region that is now called Yellowstone National Park. Jackson’s photographs of Western subjects hung in the parlors of thousands of homes, and stimulated interest in the region among the business people and tourists alike.