Timothy O'Sullivan and the Shoshone Falls By Kristi Finefield Mr. Sullivan [i.e. O'Sullivan]. Photo by Wheeler & Angerman, circa 1873. https://ift.tt/2ue3cgR Details about the life of Irish American photographer Timothy O'Sullivan are sparse. He was either born in New York or emigrated with his parents at the age of 2 from Ireland in 1842. He died at the age of 42 from tuberculosis. He left few documents in his own hand, but the photographs he took during his relatively short life speak volumes. O'Sullivan worked for Mathew Brady and with Alexander Gardner documenting the U.S. Civil War as a photographer in the field. His photographs populate just under half the pages of Gardner's landmark work, the Photographic Sketch Book of the War. After the war, O'Sullivan would spend years traveling as the photographer for geographical and geological surveys as the ...
