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U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps by Timothy O'Sullivan — VisualArtsDB

U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps

U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps

Timothy O'Sullivan

1864

Medium: Albumen print, pl. 62 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 17.3 × 22.3 cm (6 13/16 × 8 13/16 in.); Album page: 31.1 × 44 cm (12 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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19th centuryphotographyalbumen silver printphotographCollected by Hugh EdwardsGardner's Photographic Sketch Book

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Lost Lakes, head of Conejos Cañon, Colorado, in the Sierra San Juan range, near divide between Conejos and south fork of Alamosa Rivers, surrounded by forest of Douglass spruce, and approximately 11.000 feel above sea-level, No. 37 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

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Incidents of the War: Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery in Action

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Navajo Brave and his Mother. The Navajo were formerly a warlike tribe until subdued by U.S. Troops, in 1859-60. Many of them now have fine flocks, and herds of horses, sheeps and goats, No. 29 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

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