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Black Cañon, Colorado River, looking above from camp 7 (LOC)

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer.

 

Black Cañon, Colorado River, looking above from camp 7

 

1871.

 

1 photographic print : albumen.

 

Notes:

Photograph showing a small boat docked near rock walls along the Colorado River. A man sits on a rock overlooking the river.

Plate no. 5.

Title from item.

 

Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, seasons of 1871, 1872, and 1873. [Washington, D.C.] : War Dept., Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, [1875]

 

Published in: Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan / Toby Jurovics, Carol M. Johnson, Glenn Willumson, and William F. Stapp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, plate 49.

 

Subjects:

Rivers--Nevada--1870-1880.

Canyons--Nevada--1870-1880.

Black Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.)--1870-1880.

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)

 

Format: Expedition photographs--1870-1880.

Landscape photographs--1870-1880.

Albumen prints--1870-1880.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.10012

 

Call Number: LOT 4677-A, no. 4

 

 

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Uploaded on January 22, 2010
Taken sometime in 1871