Object Details
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- printer
- Tucker, Beverley
- author
- Williamson, Robert Stockton
- Blake, William Phipps
- original artist
- Koppel, Charles
- graphic artist
- unknown
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- Description (Brief)
- This tinted lithograph of “Mission and Plain of San Fernando” was originally drawn by an expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate VI following page 74 in the "Geological Report by W. P. Blake (1826-1910), Geologist and Minerologist to the Expedition," as part of Volume V, Part II of the "Report of Lieutenant R. S. Williamson (1825-1882), Corps of Topographical Engineers, Upon the Routes in California to Connect with the Routes Near the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-second Parallels" by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson ... in 1853."
- The volume was printed as part of the "Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean" in 1856 by A. P. O. Nicholson (1808-1876) in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1856
- ID Number
- GA.10729.38
- accession number
- 62261
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Tinted Lithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall materials)
- ink (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 29.9 cm x 23.3 cm; 11 3/4 in x 9 3/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1317697
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-f6c0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
