Devils Slide, Utah / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot. – Historic Print
![Devils Slide, Utah / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot., [1869] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/25/25a570a2a185-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Devils Slide, Utah / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Devils Slide, Utah / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.
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Devils Slide is a pair of nearly vertical limestone walls in northern Utah, with a narrow groove between them that looks like a giant stone chute. Timothy O'Sullivan made this albumen print in 1869 as part of Clarence King's Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, a survey that paired geological mapping with photography to document the West's terrain. The photographs were meant to record rock structure as much as scenery, so the sharp, tilted strata here are as much a scientific record as a view. The print is plate 32 from the survey's published series.
| Created / published | [1869] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Expedition photographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Plate 32 from: Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel / U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers ; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C., 187-?]. Titlel from item. |
| Subjects | United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel--(1867-1881) Rock formations--Utah--1860-1870. Cliffs--Utah--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,621 × 7,230 px · prints to 19 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 18012u devil's slide |
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