The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States, Obtained in connection with Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Seasons of 1871, 1872 and 1873

Timothy H. O'Sullivan|William Bell|Lieutenant George Montague Wheeler

1871–73

Attribution

| |Commissioned by Timothy H. O'Sullivan|William Bell|Lieutenant George Montague Wheeler | | American, born Ireland, 1840–1882|American (born England), Liverpool 1831–1910 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|American, 1842–1905

Medium

Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

Physical dimensions

Image (each, approximately): 10 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (27.6 × 20 cm) Sheet (each, approximately): 10 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (27.6 × 20 cm) Printed Border (each): 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 28 cm) Mount (each): 21 1/4 × 16 3/4 in. (54 × 42.6 cm) Overall: 21 7/8 × 18 3/4 × 3 in. (55.5 × 47.6 × 7.6 cm)

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005