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Head of Cañon de Chelle, Looking Down, Walls about 1200 Feet in Height

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American Photographer · 1840–1882

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Timothy H. O'Sullivan began his photography career as an apprentice to Mathew Brady, but he left the Brady gallery to photograph American Civil War battlefields on his own. In 1862 or 1863, he joined the studio of Alexander Gardner, who included forty-four of O'Sullivan's photographs in *Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War*, the first published collection of Civil War photographs. O'Sull

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