Black Canyon, Colorado River, Looking Above from Mirror Bar, 1871, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American, 1840 - 1882, 8 x 10 7/8 in. ( x cm) (image)16 x 19 15/16 in. ( x cm) (mount), Albumen print, United States, 19th century, Timothy H. O’Sullivan originally began his career in photography by working for the military to document the Civil War (1861-65). He later began photographing landscapes on military and geographic expeditions, during which he used a wet-plate collodion process, a technique which allowed him to have a portable darkroom that could develop images within

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