Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above. Artist: Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840-1882). Dimensions: 20 x 28.1 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/16 in. ). Date: 1871.An engineer graduated from West Point, Lieutenant George Wheeler wanted to find inland passage for troops from Idaho and Utah southward to Arizona. In 1871 he was commissioned with the fourth U.S. Survey to map the topography of that region in view of strategic transit and future settlement. To his original corps of scientists Wheeler added the son of a prominent Boston family, to publicize the expedition in the Eastern press, and Timothy O'Sullivan, to provide a visual record.<p>As O'Sullivan's experience in the field was unequaled from his work as a photographer during the Civil War, it is not surprising that Wheeler placed great confidence in him from the outset, providing him with a roving commission and a boat of his own on the Colorado River. Although Wheeler's boats progressed slowly (they had to be rowed, sail

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Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above. Artist: Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840-1882). Dimensions: 20 x 28.1 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/16 in. ). Date: 1871.An engineer graduated from West Point, Lieutenant George Wheeler wanted to find inland passage for troops from Idaho and Utah southward to Arizona. In 1871 he was commissioned with the fourth U.S. Survey to map the topography of that region in view of strategic transit and future settlement. To his original corps of scientists Wheeler added the son of a prominent Boston family, to publicize the expedition in the Eastern press, and Timothy O'Sullivan, to provide a visual record.<p>As O'Sullivan's experience in the field was unequaled from his work as a photographer during the Civil War, it is not surprising that Wheeler placed great confidence in him from the outset, providing him with a roving commission and a boat of his own on the Colorado River. Although Wheeler's boats progressed slowly (they had to be rowed, sail

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