Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above

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Artist: Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840–1882)
Date: 1871
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: 20 x 28.1 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/16 in. )
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986
Accession no.: 1986.1054.19

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian
Timothy O'Sullivan
1871/73 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00000192
Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian
Timothy O'Sullivan
1871/74 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00000193
Sand Dunes, Carson Desert, Nevada
Timothy O'Sullivan
1867 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00000372
50th Pennsylvania Infantry in Parade Formation
Timothy O'Sullivan
c. 1870/82 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006397

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.