The Pyramid and Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nev. (LOC)

    O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer.

    The Pyramid and Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nev.

    [1867]

    1 photographic print : albumen.

    Notes:
     Photo shows a line of dome-shaped tufa rocks culminating in a large pyramid-shaped tufa rock in Pyramid Lake, Nevada.

    Plate 91 from: Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel / U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers ; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C., 187-?].
    Title from item.

    Published in: Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan / Toby Jurovics, Carol M. Johnson, Glenn Willumson, and William F. Stapp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, plate 10.

    Subjects:
     United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel--(1867-1881)
    Rock formations--Nevada--Pyramid Lake--1860-1870.
    Lakes & ponds--Nevada--Pyramid Lake--1860-1870.
    Pyramid Lake (Nev.)--1860-1870.

    Format: Expedition photographs--1860-1870.
    Albumen prints--1860-1870.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.11875

    Call Number: LOT 7096, no. 89

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