Explorers Column, Canon de Chelle, Arizona. This shaft is the work of nature, and is about 900 feet in height...70 by 110 feet..

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Explorers Column, Canon de Chelle, Arizona. This shaft is the work of nature, and is about 900 feet in height...70 by 110 feet..

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Timothy H. O'Sullivan

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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1873
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Albumen silver print
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American
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