Sand dunes Carson Desert Nevada / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot. – Historic Print
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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: Sand dunes Carson Desert Nevada / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sand dunes Carson Desert Nevada / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.
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Sand dunes rising across the floor of the Carson Desert in western Nevada are the subject of this albumen print, which appears as plate 108 in the report of the Fortieth Parallel survey. The survey, led by geologist Clarence King, mapped the territory along the 40th parallel in the late 1860s, and its photographs were meant to document terrain as well as rock formations. Timothy H. O'Sullivan, who worked as the survey's photographer, made the image, and his emptiness-filled landscapes give a sense of how difficult the Great Basin was for travelers and surveyors. The dunes show how shifting sand could bury and reshape the desert floor.
| Created / published | [1867] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | phot." Plate 108 from: Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel / U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers ; Clarence King |
| Notes | Plate has at top the seal of the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, War Department, and at bottom Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel; Clarence King |
| Subjects | United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel--(1867-1881) Deserts--Nevada--1860-1870. Dunes--Nevada--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,464 × 1,180 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218511 |
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