Lithograph of "South End of S. Inez Mountains & S. Buenaventura Valley"
Object Details
- graphic artist
- A. Hoen & Co.
- original artist
- Campbell, A. H.
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- author
- Parke, J. G.
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- graphic artist
- A. Hoen & Co.
- Description (Brief)
- This tinted lithograph of “South End of S. Inez Mountains & S. Buenaventura Valley" was produced after an original sketch by engineer and surveyor A. H. Campbell (1826-1899). It was printed as Plate II in Volume VII, Part I, following page 6, in the "General Report," part of the "Report of Explorations for Railroad Routes from San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles, California, West of the Coast Range, and from the Pimas Villages on the Gila to the Rio Grande, Near the 32nd Parallel of North Latitude," by Lieutenant John G. Parke, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Assisted by Albert H. Campbell, Civil Engineer, 1854-1855."
- 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) of Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1857
- ID Number
- GA.16332.048
- catalog number
- 16332.048
- accession number
- 1930.110179
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Tinted Lithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18.5 cm x 24.5 cm; 7 5/16 in x 9 5/8 in
- location of print publication
- United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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- Natural Resources
- Science & Mathematics
- Survey Prints
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Transportation
- Art
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1320023
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-f363-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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