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Oreana, Nev. / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot. – Historic Print

Oreana, Nev. / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot., [1867] — historic photograph
Oreana, Nev. / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot., [1867]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Oreana, a small frontier settlement in Nevada's silver-mining country, is the subject of this albumen print, which Timothy H. O'Sullivan made in 1867. It is plate 83 from the *Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel*, a survey under geologist Clarence King that mapped the land along the 40th parallel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. O'Sullivan's photographs from the expedition are among the earliest records of the mining towns and remote terrain of the West, and this view shows the modest buildings and open ground of a community that existed largely because of the mineral wealth nearby.

Created / published[1867]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreExpedition photographs 1860-1870.Landscape photographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
NotesTitle from item. Plate 83 from: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel / United States Army Corps of Engineers; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C.; 187-?].
SubjectsUnited States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel--(1867-1881) Frontier & pioneer life--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114521

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