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The Detroit Publishing Company created its negative files by sending its own photographers out on the road and purchasing other photographers’ files.  In his early years with the company, Jackson traveled for months at a time, taking his own photographs and examining other photographers’ files for possible purchase.

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“The photographer’s assistants.”  William H. Jackson with his donkey “Hypo” carrying a mammoth plate view camera and other equipment, printed about 1900 from a negative made about 1880.

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Image of man and donkey--the photographer's assistants
Accession ID # P.DPC.07173.A

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