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

TITLE ON OBJECT: The "Pyramid" and tufa knobs, Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
PUBLISHED TITLE: Pyramid & Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada

April 1868
albumen print
19.8 x 26.9 cm.
Gift of Harvard University
GEH NEG: 35713
81:1887:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: 8269-127
NON-GEH NUMBER: plate 67

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: This image was part of GEH's 2001 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West", US, NY, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, June 27 - September 22, 1996.//

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, 26. War Department, vol. III, 144.

SUBJECT: landscape, lake / Pyramid Lake

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The Pyramid and tufa kn

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