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The following chronology highlights Jackson's career and some key events in the history of photography.

1839: Invention of photography.
1843: William Henry Jackson born in Keeseville, New York.
1851: Collodion wet-plate glass negatives introduced.
1867: Jackson opens a photography studio in Omaha, Nebraska.
1870-1878: Jackson begins photographing the landscape of the Rockies, especially the Yellowstone area and Colorado, for Francis V. Hayden's Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories.
1879: Gelatin dry plates become commercially available in the United States.; Jackson opens a photography studio in Denver.
1889: Eastman begins production of nitro-cellulose film.
1890-1892: Jackson photographs for various railroad lines, including the Mexican Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and New York Central, using 18x22-inch glass plate negatives.
1893: Jackson's photographs commissioned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition.
1894-1896: Jackson photographs for the World's Transportation Commission.
1897-1924: Jackson joins the Detroit Photographic Company. His negatives become the basis for the Company's postcard and photographic view business.
1942: Jackson dies in New York City.