Chromolithograph of "Fort Massachusetts at the Foot of the Sierra Blanca Valley of San Luis"
date: label: date made
content: 1855
name: label: engraver
content: Stanley, John Mix
label: artist
content: Kern, Richard H.
label: printer
content: Sinclair, T.
label: publisher
content: U.S. War Department
label: author
content: Beckwith, Edward Griffin
label: author
content: Gunnison, John Williams
label: printer
content: Tucker, Beverley
label: publisher
content: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
notes: label: Description
content: This tinted lithograph of “Fort Massachusetts at the Foot of the Sierra Blanca Valley of San Luis" was produced by Thomas Sinclair (1805-1881), Philadelphia, after a sketch by John Mix Stanley (1814-1872) and an original sketch by expedition artist R. H. Kern (1821-1853). It was printed as a plate in Volume II following page 38, in the "Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad, by Captain J. W. Gunnison (1812-1853), Topographical Engineers, Near the 38th and 39th Parallels of North Latitude, from the Mouth of the Kansas River, Missouri to the Sevier Lake in the Great Basin" by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith (1818-1881), Third Artillery.
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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 1855 by A. P. O. Nicholson (1808-1876) of Washington, D.C.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.10729.27
label: accession number
content: 62261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 30 cm; 8 7/16 in x 11 13/16 in