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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Savage-Cage-Virginia City.
PUBLISHED TITLE: Comstock Lode Mine Works, Virginia City, Nevada

Jan.-Feb.,1868
albumen print
18.0 x 22.9 cm.
Gift of Harvard University
GEH NEGS: 14340 9292
81:1887:0013

OLD GEH NUMBER: 8269-164
NON-GEH NUMBER: plate 26

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: 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.//
"West of the Rockies", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Travel, January 1972 - December 1980. (Traveled).//
"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.//

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.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, mining
landscape, winter

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