The William Henry Jackson Photographs are a collection of portraits and photographs of Indigenous peoples from across what is now known as North America. Dating from the mid 1800's, the images were published in William Henry Jackson's 1877 catalog, Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians.

This finding aid is modeled after the 1877 Jackson catalog; there is a link to the Project Gutenberg copies of the catalog at the bottom of this finding aid, under "External Documents.". The photographs are organized by their linguistic series (Algonquin, Southern Athabaskan). Within these series are sub-series of Indigenous groups (Cheyenne, Apache). Some groups have further distinctions for separate bands of peoples (Northern or Southern Cheyenne; Pinal, Coyotero, or Jicarilla); if present, these distinctions are noted in the photo title.

Each photograph title includes its subject’s name in phonetic English, as well as the 1877 translation of the name’s meaning. Each photo also has an identifier number (#.##.#) that indicates the volume and page, and which photo on the board is being described. Therefore, 1.20.6 indicates the sixth image on board 1-20, which correlates to the volume 1, page 20 of the 1877 catalog. Some images also have a number assigned from the 1877 catalog, appearing in parenthesis.

The photographs themselves are the work of several photographers, while the catalog of the photographs is the work of A. Zeno Shindler and William Henry Jackson.