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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Soda Lake - Carson Desert
PUBLISHED TITLE: Alkali Lake, Carson Desert

1867
albumen print
19.8 x 26.8 cm.
Gift of Harvard University
GEH NEG: 15366
81:1886:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: 8269-137
NON-GEH NUMBER: plate 81

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Snyder, Joel. --American Frontiers: The Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1867-1874.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981. p. 61.//
This image was part of GEH's 2001 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"The Photographer and the American Landscape", US, NY, New York, Museum of Modern Art, September 24 - December 1, 1963.//
"American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//

INSCRIPTION: mount-recto (letterpress) "U. S. Engineer Department. Geological Exploration, Fortieth Parallel. T. H. O'Sullivan, Photographer." (handwritten in pencil) "[title]"

NOTES: Catalogued 8/88, SB. Library of Congress, vol. III, 23. War Department, vol. III, 141. "Desert Lake, Ragtown, Nevada." Photograph is part of a two-part panorama with 81:1886:17. See reproduction in Joel Snyder's book, pg. 60-61.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, lake / Soda Lake
landscape, figures in

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