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Timothy H. O’Sullivan (1840–1882) was one of the most important American photographers of the nineteenth century. O’Sullivan’s work in the King Survey—which covered an 800-mile-long swath of land, roughly straddling the path of the transcontinental rail route, from southern Wyoming to the California line—is of particular importance to his career and to the history of American photography. His pho…