About this Item
BRAND NEW & Collectible. Printed especially for contributing members of the Smithsonian Nat'l Associate Program. Selected collection of b/w works, including hitherto unpublished photos taken in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, in 1875, of German-American government photographer John Karl Hillers (1843 - 1925). After a career of soldiering, he met John Wesley Powell and hired on as a boatman for the 2nd Powell expedition down the Colorado River in 1871. Hillers became Powell's chief expedition photographer on the trip down the Grand Canyon the next year, and spent his next 20 years exploring and photographing the American West as photographer of Powell's Bureau of Ethnology, Powell's US Geological Survey, and the Bureau of American Ethnology. Seller Inventory # 010831
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE WESTERN PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN K. HILLERS :...
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: John K. Hillers (Photographer)
Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW
Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
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