U.S. Military Post Benicia
date: label: date made
content: 1856
name: label: original artist
content: Koppel, Charles
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “U.S. Military Post Benicia" was produced after an original sketch by expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate II in Volume V, Part II, following page 4, in the "Geological Report by W. P. Blake, Geologist and Minerologist to the Expedition," as part of the “Routes in California, to Connect with the Routes near the Thirty–Fifth and Thirty–Second Parallels, Explored by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1853."
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Transcontinental Railroad
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16332.053
label: catalog number
content: 16332.053
label: accession number
content: 1930.110179
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 m x 25 cm; 65 5/8 ft x 9 13/16 in