Western Photograph Digital Collection featuring Timothy H. O’Sullivan

Posted on February 18, 2022 Updated on February 16, 2022

The American Geographical Society Library has an extensive collection of western photographs by the photographers of the four great western surveys: William Henry Jackson, John K. Hillers, William Bell, Timothy O’Sullivan, Eadweard J. Muybridge and Carleton E. Watkins.

The Western Photograph Digital Collection presents 250 images from the American Geographical Society Library. The images selected are those of Timothy H. O’Sullivan (1840-1882) and were taken during the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, 1867 – 1872 and the Surveys West of the 100th Meridian Expedition, 1874 and other explorations of the early Western territories of the United States.

View the digital collection here: https://uwm.edu/lib-collections/western-photos/?fbclid=IwAR3_6YbX7Qrot_ljWp905P-mSlR7mkdrCKYI2LgoVFGNWDhWK07yq6IU9Dg