Savage Works, Virginia [City], Nevada / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot. – Antique Wall Art
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(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: Savage Works, Virginia [City], Nevada / 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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Savage Works, Virginia [City], Nevada / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.
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Savage Works, a group of mills in Virginia City, Nevada, is the subject of this albumen print, which Timothy O'Sullivan made around 1868. Virginia City sat at the heart of the Comstock Lode, the silver discovery that drew a rush of miners and turned the high desert into an industrial landscape within a few years. O'Sullivan took the picture for the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, the survey led by Clarence King, and it appears as plate 95 in the survey's published series. The print records the works that followed the silver strike, a reminder that the survey was as concerned with mineral wealth as with mapping the land.
| Created / published | [1868] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Expedition photographs 1860-1870.Landscape photographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. Plate 95 from: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel / United States Army Corps of Engineers; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C.; 187-?]. |
| Subjects | United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel--(1867-1881) Mills--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,189 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114520 |
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