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O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
American (b. Ireland, 1840-1882)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Ancient Ruins in the Canon de Chelle [sic], N.M. In a niche 50 feet above present canon bed.
ALBUM TITLE: --Photographs Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian...--, Washington, D.C.: 1874.

1873
PUBLISHER: United States Army Corps of Engineers
albumen print
27.5 x 20.3 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Philip Medicus
GEH NEGS: 19662 3344
79:0014:0041

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 34
NON-GEH NUMBER: No. 10

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Wheeler, George M., 1st Lt. --Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States obtained in Conjunction With...Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian.-- Washington, DC: Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1871, 1872, 1873.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 203.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"T.H. O'Sullivan Photographer", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, *** no exhib date given ***.//
"This Edifice is Colossal: 19th Century Architectural Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, November 8, 1986 - January 4, 1987. (Traveled).//
"American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//
"Images of Expansion: 19th Century Photography in British India & Am. West", US, MA, Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art, January 11 - March 29, 1992.//
"Legend & Legacy: Ansel Adams and 19th-Century Landscape Photographers", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, July 18 - October 4, 1992.//

INSCRIPTION: recto (printed on mount) "War Department Corps of Engineers. U. S. Army." "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian." "Expedition of 1873-Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers Commanding." "T. H. O'Sullivan, Phot." "No. 10." "Ancient ruins in the Canon De Chelle [sic], N.M. In a niche 50 feet above present canon bed." verso-(in pencil) "plate no. 10"

NOTES: Catalogued 5/88, SB, updated 7/91, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, cliff dwellings
architecture, ruins
landscape, canyon / Canyon de Chelly

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