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Chromolithograph of "Mission and Plain of San Fernando"

American History Museum

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    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

    date made

    1856

    ID Number

    GA.10729.38

    accession number

    62261

    Object Name

    print

    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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    Data Source

    National Museum of American History

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-f6c0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

    Record ID

    nmah_1317697

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