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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Island, Limon Bay or Islands in Cupica Bay. 1871. NARA # 77-H-8913P-5.
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Building with barred windows, probably at Cartagena, Colombia. 1870. NARA# 77-H-8913P-29.
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Native house at Turbo, Gulf of Darien.1870. NARA # 77-H-8913P-21.
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Cathedral at Cartagena, Colombia. 1870. NARA # 77-H-8913P-25.
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Native hut near Turbo, Gulf of Darien. 1870. NARA # 77-H-8913P-20
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Village of Santa Maria del Real. 1871. NARA # 77-H-8913P-11.
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Wilds of the Isthmus of Darien. Photo by T.H. O'Sullivan, 1870, or J. Moran, 1871.
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Darien Harbor, looking south. 1871. NARA # 77-H-8913P-10.
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Limon River below the falls of Quebrada del Mar, Limon Bay. 1871. NARA # 77-H-78913P-8.
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Album Caption: Darien Expedition. Pinogana, Tuyra River. 1871. NARA # 77-H-8913S-25. During 1870-1875, Navy Commander Thomas O. Selfridge led several exploring and surveying expeditions to the Isthmus of Darien (now known as Panama) to ascertain the practicability of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Photographer Timothy O'Sullivan accompanied the first Darien Expedition in 1870, and photographer John Moran (older brother of Painter Thomas Moran) traveled wit the second Darien Expedition in 1871. Reports from later expeditions did not mention whether a photographer accompanied the surveyors. Apparently O'Sullivan traveled only to the eastern-most area on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus, and...
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Darien Expedition. Album Caption: Natural arch at Cupica Bay. 1871. NARA # 77-H-8913P-28.