Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
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Hillers, John K. (American photographer, 1843-1925)
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Important early photographer for the Powell Survey, the Bureau of Ethnology, and the Geological Survey.
The Cline Endowment Collection consists of photographs purchased through an endowment established by Platt and Barbara Cline, for whom the Cline Library is named. The images were selected on the basis of their relevance to the Department's collecting focus: the Colorado Plateau.
Jack Hillers (1843-1925) was a boatman, explorer, and photographer with the Powell Expedition in the 1870s down the Colorado River. He was also the chief photographer of the United States Geological Survey.
Hillers was photographer for the Bureau of American Ethnology and Geological Survey expeditions to the Southwest under John Wesley Powell.
John K. Hillers was a photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the 19th century.
Western expedition photographer.
Born in Germany in 1843, John K. Hillers in 1872 became Maj. John Wesley Powell's chief photographer on his western surveys. Hillers continued to work for Powell until 1900 as photographer for the Bureau of Ethnology (1879-1881) and chief photographer of the U.S. Geological Survey (1881-1900). Beginning in 1879 under the auspices of the Bureau of Ethnology, Hillers traveled to the Southwest with Frank Hamilton Cushing and James Stevens, and compiled an extensive photographic record of the pueblos and archeological ruins of Arizona and New Mexico.
Biographical Sketch
Hillers, initially under John Wesley Powell, was photographer on several survey expeditions of the American West from 1872 into the 1880s. He was chief photographer of the United States Geological Survey until 1900.
John Karl Hillers was born in 1843. He came to the United States from Germany in 1852. He fought as a soldier in the American Civil War. Starting in 1871, he photographed with John Welsey Powell on his second expedition down the Colorado River. He went on to photograph for the Bureau of Ethnology, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Bureau of American Ethnology until his formal retirement in 1900. He continued shooting for the USGS until 1919. He died in 1925.
The original negatives of images taken by Hillers in an official government capacity can be found at the National Archives. Countless duplicates exist in other locales across the country.
John K. Hillers (1843-1925) was a German American photographer in the West.
John Karl Hillers was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1843. He came to the United States in 1852. He worked as a teamster in Salt Lake City where he met John Wesley Powell. Originally hired as a boatman for the second Powell expedition down the Colorado River in 1871, he started to assist the expedition's photographers (E.O. Beamanand then James Fennemore) after a while. Hillers was Powell's chief expedition photographer on the trip down the Grand Canyon the next year. He officially retired in 1900, but continued to take photographs for the United States Geological Survey until 1919. He died in 1925.
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West (U.S.)
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Oraibi (Ariz.)
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Kanab Canyon (Ariz.)
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Southwest, New
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Utah
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Nambe Pueblo (N.M.)
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Nambe Pueblo (N.M.)
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Santa Clara Pueblo (N.M.)
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Arizona
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Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
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Arizona
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Fort Wingate (N.M.)
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.)
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Kanab Canyon (Ariz.)
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California
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Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico
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