Famous Photographer #11: Timothy O’Sullivan

Timothy O'Sullivan was commissioned in the Union Army, and he fought numerous battles. After he was honorably discharged from the army, O'Sullivan he started working for Mathew Brady again. He was joining Alexander Gardner's studio and because of this he was able to publish his photographs in the first Civil War photographs collection Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of War. O'Sullivan created his most famous photograph, "The Harvest of Death," which showed dead soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg. In 1867, he became the official photographer on the U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. He photographed the mines and work done during this expedition. During his last years he was in Washingoton D.C. as an official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survery and the Treasury Department.