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Hillers, John K. |
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John K. Hillers (1843-1925)
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| Birth Place |
Hanover, Germany |
| Death Place |
Washington, D.C. |
| Born |
1843 |
| Died |
1925 |
| General Notes |
Hillers came to the United States from Hanover, Germany, in 1852. He enlisted in the New York Naval Brigade at the outbreak of the Civil War and later joined the Union army. Hillers remained in the army until 1870, when he visited San Francisco. On the return trip he met Major John Wesley Powell in Salt Lake City, Utah, and joined the second Powell expedition down the Colorado River. Beginning as a boatman, Hillers learned photography by assisting the expedition photographers. He outlasted several photographers and was finally named expedition photographer early in the 1872 season. When Powell was named director of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879 he hired Hillers, who made a large number of Indian portraits for the Bureau. Hillers also continued his work for the United States Geological Survey, still under Powell's direction. |
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