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Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

A Masterful Frame Job

Posted by: Matt Raymond

In 1867, the American West was still very much wild.  It was into that new frontier that a young photographer named Timothy O’Sullivan ventured to provide a visual record of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, led by Clarence King. As much a PR effort to encourage settlement of the West as it was …