Shaft of Savage Mine, Virginia City, Nevada

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

Date1868

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall: 7 × 8 3/8 inches (17.78 × 21.27 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 number2005.27.3262

InscribedLabel Horan label Back of Mount

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DescriptionVintage albumen print on original King Survey mount. Horan stamp on back of mount. No. 85 in series. Image of men standing in front of a mine shaft.Exhibition History

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. 28.

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At the Savage mine, O'Sullivan photographed the top of the Curtis shaft, showing workers with cars used to hoist ore and debris up from underground. A lithograph of this geometrically precise study was used as the frontispiece to the first of the survey's official reports, Mining Industry (1870).

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