View of Benecia from the West
date: label: date made
content: 1856
name: label: original artist
content: Koppel, Charles
label: graphic artist
content: Sinclair, T.
label: publisher
content: Tucker, Beverley
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Valley of Benecia from the West” was prepared by Thomas Sinclair (ca 1805-1881), Philadelphia, after an original sketch by expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate I, as a frontispiece image, in Volume V, Part I 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."
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: location of book publication
content: United States: District of Columbia
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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.16332.06
label: catalog number
content: 16332.06
label: accession number
content: 1930.110179
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Relief; Wood Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.4 cm x 24.5 cm; 7 5/8 in x 9 5/8 in