Canon De Chelle Ancient Ruins New Mexico Victorian Photo Postcard

AHOP-g   -  This is a stunning collectors opportunity to secure this original undated but modern origin VA& Museum photo souvenir by historic photographer Timothy O Sullivan called Canon De Chelle Ancient Ruins  with full details of this 1873 work on reverse and the V&A official museum logo too unused and mint condition.

Timothy H. O'Sullivan was an American photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States. O'Sullivan's experience photographing in the field earned him a position as photographer for the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, the first govermental survey of the American West. He returned to Washington, D.C., in 1874 and made prints for the Army Corps of Engineers. Soon after being made chief photographer for the United States Treasury in 1880, O'Sullivan died of tuberculosis at age forty-one.