Chromolithograph of "Colorado Desert and Signal Mountain"
date: label: date made
content: 1856
name: label: original artist
content: Koppel, Charles
label: publisher
content: U.S. War Department
label: author
content: Williamson, Robert Stockton
label: printer
content: Tucker, Beverley
label: graphic artist
content: unknown
label: publisher
content: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Colorado Desert and Signal Mountain" was produced after an original sketch by expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate XI in Volume V, Part I, following page 40, in the "General Report," 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
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Lt. Col. Edgar A. Mearns, USA (Ret.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.10729.26
label: accession number
content: 62261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: print; Chromolithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall materials)
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content: ink (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.2 cm x 29.9 cm; 9 1/8 in x 11 3/4 in