John Karl Hillers

John Karl Hillers (1843, Hanover, Germany – 1925) was an American government photographer.

He worked as a teamster in Salt Lake City, when he met John Wesley Powell.

[4] Hillers was Powell's chief expedition photographer on the trip down the Grand Canyon the next year.

[6] Although he officially retired in 1900, he continued to take photographs for the United States Geological Survey until 1919.

[7] He was the photographer of the first James Stevenson expedition to the Southwest,[8] which brought Frank H. Cushing to Zuni.

Hillers at work with his negatives. In camp, Aquarius Plateau , Utah Territory , ca 1872 [ 1 ]
John Karl Hillers, c. 1890s