Wah-Ha-Ta-Gas or Spanish Peaks from Near Cuchara Aug 6th
date: label: Date made
content: 1855
name: label: graphic artist
content: A. Hoen & Co.
label: printer
content: Tucker, Beverley
label: original artist
content: Stanley, John Mix
label: original artist
content: Kern, Richard H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Wah-Ha-Ta-Gas or Spanish Peaks from Near Cuchara Aug 6th" was produced by A. Hoen & Company (fl. 1848-1943), Baltimore, 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 34, 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.
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 1855 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
label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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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.10729.34
label: catalog number
content: 10729.34
label: accession number
content: 62261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Graphics; Planographic; Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall materials)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 30 cm; 8 11/16 in x 11 13/16 in