San Luis Potosi, Mexico, circa 1897. "Estación del Ferrocarril Central Mexicano (Mexican Central R.R. station)." Glass negative by W.H. Jackson. View full size.

Lakewood, New Jersey, circa 1901. "Laurel in the Pines." This winter resort hotel on Lake Carasaljo, which opened in 1891, was leveled by fire in 1967. Composite of two 8x10 inch glass negatives by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Florida circa 1897. "The landing at Palm Beach." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1897. "Fountain at Ponce de Leon Hotel." A phantasmagoria of Edison bulbs and expectorating amphibians. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Circa 1897. "U.S. Treasury building, Washington, D.C." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

Florida circa 1897. "Palm walk on Lake Worth, Palm Beach." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

        One of William Henry Jackson's "mammoth plate" exposures, made using 18x22 inch glass negatives, a massive view camera, assorted assistants, pack animals and a mobile darkroom that he hauled around by rail with chartered locomotives. This image comes from a number of 8x10 copy negatives exposed in the 1890s from the original 18x22 mammoth plates, which evidently are too big or fragile to scan.

1891. "Mexican Central Railway -- bridge over the Santa Rosa River." 8x10 glass plate made from an 18x22 negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Pen-Mar Park, Maryland, circa 1906. "North from Brinkwood." With Mr. William Henry Jackson himself at the camera in this Blue Ridge mountain resort. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Florida circa 1897. "The Plaza, St. Augustine." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Volusia County, Florida, circa 1890. "Bostrom's on the Halifax near Ormond." A tourist boarding house built by the town's first settlers, the Bostrom brothers. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Volusia County, Florida, circa 1897. "Picnic landing on the Tomoka." With much photographic equipment strewn about, and a proffering of pie. 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

Brevard County, Florida, circa 1897. "Hotel Eau Gallie, Indian River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Norfolk, Virginia, 1902. "Monticello Hotel, Granby Street and City Hall Avenue." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

"A cypress swamp," somewhere in Mississippi circa 1897. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

1894. "Royal arch oak with Spanish moss, Ormond, Florida." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.