Timothy H. O'Sullivan, born in 1842 in Ireland. At the age of two moved with his family to New York during the potato famine. He was on of the first people to call himself a photographer. He was among the first to take photography of the field. His field work began on the Civil War battlefields and took him to the Western Frontier. in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army. His most famous photograph, "The Harvest of Death," of the dead soldiers became a collection in "
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War" From 1871 to 1874 he faced starvation on the Colorado River when some of expedition's boats tipped over or capsizing. He spent the last years of his short life in Washington, D.C., as official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey and the Treasury Department.O'Sullivan later died of tuberculosis at age 42 on January 14, 1882.
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, born in 1842 in Ireland. At the age of two moved with his family to New York during the potato famine. He was on of the first people to call himself a photographer. He was among the first to take photography of the field. His field work began on the Civil War battlefields and took him to the Western Frontier. in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army. His most famous photograph, "The Harvest of Death," of the dead soldiers became a collection in "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War" From 1871 to 1874 he faced starvation on the Colorado River when some of expedition's boats tipped over or capsizing. He spent the last years of his short life in Washington, D.C., as official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey and the Treasury Department.O'Sullivan later died of tuberculosis at age 42 on January 14, 1882. 
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