Water Line and Shores of the Ancient Lake (Colorado Desert)
date: label: Date made
content: 1856
name: label: graphic artist
content: A. Hoen & Co.
label: original artist
content: Koppel, Charles
label: printer
content: Tucker, Beverley
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Water-Line and Shores of the Ancient Lake (Colorado Desert)" was produced after an original sketch by expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate VII in Volume V, Part II, following page 96, 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.10729.02
label: catalog number
content: 10729.02
label: accession number
content: 62261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Graphics; Planographics; Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall materials)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.5 cm x 23.3 cm; 11 5/8 in x 9 3/16 in