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Facts

Born c.1840 • New York City • New York
Died January 14, 1882 • New York City • New York

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Gettysburg battlefield
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan, 1873.
Timothy H. O'Sullivan: Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
American Civil War: Appomattox Court House
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Jicarilla Apache
Petersburg, Virginia
Alfred Waud, artist for Harper's Weekly, sketching in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863; photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan.
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