Lithograph of "Cascades of the Columbia"
date: label: date of book publication
content: 1860
name: label: graphic artist
content: Sarony, Major, & Knapp
label: original artist
content: Stanley, John Mix
label: graphic artist
content: Sarony, Major, & Knapp
label: original artist
content: Stanley, John Mix
label: author
content: Stevens, Isaac Ingalls
label: printer
content: Ford, Thomas H.
label: graphic artist
content: Sarony, Major, & Knapp
label: publisher
content: U.S. War Department
label: publisher
content: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Cascades of the Columbia" was produced by Sarony, Major & Knapp (fl. 1857-1867) after an original sketch by John Mix Stanley (1814-1872). It was printed as Plate XLV in Volume XII, Book I, following page 155, in the "General Report" by Isaac I. Stevens (1818-1862) in the "Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad near the 47th and 49th Parallels of North Latitude, from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Puget Sound," 1855.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The volume was published as part of the "Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean," published as a twelve volume set in the mid-1850s to 1860. Volume 12 was printed in 1860 by Thomas H. Ford (1814-1868).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: location of book publication
content: United States: District of Columbia
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.24834
label: catalog number
content: 24834
label: accession number
content: 1978.0612
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: plate; Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.9 cm x 24.9 cm; 7 1/16 in x 9 13/16 in