Object Details
original artist
Campbell, A. H.
Description (Brief)
This tinted lithograph of “Warners Pass from San Felipe" was produced after an original sketch by engineer and surveyor A. H. Campbell (1826-1899). It was printed as Plate [III] in Volume VII, Part I, following page 12, 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
date made
1857
ID Number
GA.16332.064
catalog number
16332.064
accession number
1930.110179
Object Name
Print
Object Type
Tinted Lithograph
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 19 cm x 24.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in
place made
United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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Transcontinental Railroad
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1318522