Visualizing Land in the Post-Civil War West

Among the Sierra Nevada, California by Albert Bierstadt, 1868 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Landscape as an artistic subject

Cliffs of the Upper Colorado, Wyoming Territory

by Thomas Moran, 1882 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Landscape in the service of exploration

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

by Thomas Moran, 1872 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

View in Zuni, Looking Northeastby Jack Hillers, c. 1880 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Landscape and the railroads

Temporary and Permanent Bridges and Citadel Rock

by Andrew Russell, 1868 (Yale University)

Celebrating the Completion of the

Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah

by Andrew Russell, 1869 (Yale University)

Donner Lake from the Summit

by Albert Bierstadt, 1873 (New-York Historical Society)

Landscape and science

Valley of the Chugwater, Wyoming Territory

by Sanford Gifford, 1870 (Amon Carter Museum)

Castellated Rocks on the Chugwater by William Henry Jackson, 1870

(George Eastman House)

Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, South Side of Inscription, New Mexico

by Timothy O’Sullivan, 1873 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Black Canyon of the Colorado River, Looking Above from Camp 8

by Timothy O’Sullivan, 1871 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Landscape in the service of industry

Union Diggings, Columbia Hill, Nevada County

by Carleton Watkins, c.1871 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

George Hoag’s Record Wheat Harvest

by Andrew Hill, 1876 (Private Collection)

Landscape in the promotion of tourism

Looking Down Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point

by William Hahn, 1874 (California Historical Society)

Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail

by Carleton Watkins, c. 1865 (Huntington Library)

Big Tree – Mariposa Station

by Thomas Hill, c. 1886 (Private Collection)

Bicyclist Group on Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone

by Frank Jay Haynes, 1896 (Montana Historical Society)