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...Jackson was not fortunate enough to clamber up the iced boulders with "primitive film." Somebody in his party had to haul glass plates up the mountain so that when the time came to make an exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent, sensitize a glass plate, place it in a holder and rush it to his bulky camera before it had a chance to dry. Then he had to develop it immediately and fix it and wash it right on the spot. This was the same laborious process used by Mathew Brady...
...Pacific Northwest. Says he: "Not only is the country big, but so are the achievements and plans of the people. And the people want you to see what they have done, from the biggest operator down to the gyppologger or the settler who is living in a tent and farming 160 irrigated acres in the Columbia Basin. And in seeing some of this, you get the gnawing feeling that you are never going to catch up with the immensity of the development out here." Cordially yours...
...Everything Is O.K." Wood picked up their equipment, dug a flat ledge and pitched the tent. With Viereck's help, he dragged Argus to shelter and then tramped out a signal in the snow: HELP BROKEN...
They holed up in their tent during a three-day snowstorm, then spent four more days cutting exactly 1,038 steps up another great wall of ice. At about 2:30 p.m. on May 15, the day they were due back, they reached the peak, left souvenirs and posed for pictures-"Like at Coney Island," Argus said. The next day they started down along the conventional north route instead of the South Buttress; it was, they knew, far easier and safer-but not really safe...
...Sunday, Aug. 24, 1873, pioneer Western Photographer William H. Jackson and his helpers clambered up the iced boulders of Colorado's wild Sawatch mountains with a bulky camera, primitive film, darkroom tent and developing chemicals to make the first photograph of a natural wonder: the Mountain of the Holy Cross. Jackson made thousands of other pictures, but Holy Cross was considered his masterpiece. Despite technical progress, the thousands of Holy Cross photographs made since never surpassed Jackson's famous picture. And none, it turned out last week, ever will...