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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Mouth of Curtis Shaft. Savage Mine.
PUBLISHED TITLE: Comstock Lode Mine Works, Virginia City, Nevada

Jan.-Feb.,1868
albumen print
17.7 x 21.2 cm.
Gift of Harvard University
GEH NEG: 6365
81:1887:0011

OLD GEH NUMBER: 8269-145
NON-GEH NUMBER: plate 27

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Snyder, Joel. --American Frontiers: The Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1867-1874.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981. p. 23.//
This image was part of GEH's 2001 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"T.H. O'Sullivan Photographer", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, 1966.//
"The Documentary Photograph as a Work of Art: American Photographs, 1860-1876", US, IL, Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chic October 13 - December 12, 1976.//
"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. This photograph is reproduced as a woodcut in one of King's annual reports which is in GEH library.

SUBJECT: landscape, mine

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