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A black and white photograph of a dessert-like ground depicting several cacti planted in dirt with scattered patches of grass.

A black and white photograph of a dessert-like ground depicting several cacti planted in dirt with scattered patches of grass. A large cactus with two branches is found in the middle of picture, on the right side of it a smaller cactus with four branches is portrayed. Far on the left side of the picture a five branches cactus is standing along with others that are not easily seen entirely, just in part.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1020
People
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
Title
Cereus Giganteus, Arizona
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Wheeler Expedition of 1871, no. 12
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1871
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158083

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 27.2 x 19.9 cm (10 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
mount: 51 x 40.6 cm (20 1/16 x 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: recto, top center, pre-printed mount: WAR DEPARTMENT [over] CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S. ARMY.
  • inscription: recto, top center, graphite: Sci2600.290
  • inscription: recto, top edge above image, pre-printed mount: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Expedition of 1871 - Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'd'g.
  • inscription: recto, bottom edge below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 12 [over title]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Transferred from the Museum of Comparative Zoology Library, Gift of the U.S. War Department, 1877
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.1020
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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