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Virginia City, Nevada

Artist Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840 - 1882)
Date1868
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches (19.69 x 26.99 cm)
Mat (exhibition): 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 60.96 cm)
Framed: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (59.37 × 69.85 × 4.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3246
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionVintage albumen print on original U.S. Eng. Dept/Geological Exploration, Fortieth Parallel mount.Exhibition History

Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs. The Art Institute of Chicago, October 22, 2011 - January 15, 2012, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 7 - September 2, 2012, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, January 23 - May 26, 2014, no. 34.

Gallery Label
Virginia City and Gold Hill were centers of mining activity on the Comstock Lode, a silver vein roughly four miles long and 600 feet wide. Enormously productive through most of the 1860s, this lode was nearly played out by the early 1870s. 
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Shaft of Savage Mine, Virginia City, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3236
Sugar Loaf Mountain, near Virginia City, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3312
Gould & Curry Mine, Virginia City, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3237
Savage Mine, Virginia City, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3311
Glacial lake, East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3310
after conservation, 5/2011
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1867
2005.27.3240
Montezuma Silver Works, Oreana, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1867
2005.27.3241
Austin, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3316
Lake Marian, East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3320
Summit, East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3325
after conservation, 5/2011
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1867
2005.27.3239
Longitude Butte, Ruby Valley, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3247