Long Remember

TIME EXPOSURE--William Henry Jackson--Putnam ($3.50).

William Henry Jackson, dean of U. S. photographers (TIME, April 15), was born in 1843, two years before Texas joined the Union, now lives in Manhattan. Last week, in a simple, chatty, offhand chronicle, he told what he had done with all that time. His earliest recollection (age 4) is hating Mexican General Santa Anna. At 19, Jackson joined the Union Army, spent a quiet year guarding Washington, three quiet days guarding box cars at Gettysburg during the battle. He later voted for Abraham Lincoln (Term II).

In the West he bullwhacked across the Plains, filled then with fierce bison, fiercer Indians. He got his lungs full of pre-Dust Bowl dust, his system full of alkali water. In Utah he discovered that "in this country you'll find only three seasons--July, August, and winter."

In Omaha he tried settling down at his old trade, photography. Then the Geological Survey sent him to explore and photograph the unknown Yellowstone. For the Survey, too, he photographed the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. To study and photograph railroads he got himself sent around the world, crisscrossed Europe, northern Africa, southern Asia, almost circumnavigated Australia, almost froze to death on a winter journey from Vladivostok to Moscow. Quieter now, he paints massive murals of the western mountains when he isn't tossing off smaller oils.

Said proud William Henry Jackson, 97, last week: "How many men will be voting for Wendell L. Willkie who also voted for Abraham Lincoln?"

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