Luminous-Lint - for collectors and connoisseurs of photography Register
Subscribe
Login
Photographers:
Connections:
Getting around...
| Home > Contents > Images
See astonishing photographs and connections.
Register and see for yourself...
LL/35266
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1867
Timothy O'Sullivan's ambulance wagon and portable darkroom used during the King Survey rolls across the sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.

Albumen print
National Archives and Records Administration
Call Number: LOT 7096, no. 107
 
Photo shows the wagon O'Sullivan used to carry photographic equipment.
 
Plate has at top the seal of the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, War Department, and at bottom "Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel; Clarence King, geologist in charge; T.H. O'Sullivan, phot."
 
Plate 108 from: Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel / U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C., 187-?].
 
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 6.
 
LL/35266


 

Terms and conditions • Copyright • Privacy • Contact me
Contributors retain copyright over their submissions
In using this website you agree to the Terms and Conditions
© Alan Griffiths - Luminous-Lint 2025