Lithograph of bird species "Buteo calurus"
date: label: date on report
content: 1854
label: date printed in book
content: 1859
name: label: original artist
content: Cassin, John
label: publisher
content: U.S. War Department
label: author
content: Beckwith, Edward Griffin
label: publisher
content: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
label: printer
content: Nicholson, A. O. P.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This colored lithograph of "Buteo calurus [Cassin]," now "Buteo jamaicensis calurus" or Red-tailed Hawk, is believed to have been drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock (ca 1822-ca 1906), lithographed by Bowen & Company of Philadelphia (ca 1840-1870), and likely hand colored by Bowen firm colorists or Lavinia Bowen (ca 1820- ca 1872).
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content: The image was published as Plate XIV in the "Zoological Portion of the Reports by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery, upon the Route near the 38th and 39th Parallels, surveyed by Captain J. W. Gunnison, Corps of Topographical Engineers, and upon the route near the Forty–First Parallel, surveyed by Lieut. E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery.” The report was published in volume X of the “Reports and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean ... 1853, 1856, Volume X," printed in 1859 by Beverley Tucker of Washington, D.C.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: United States: District of Columbia
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16332.017
label: accession number
content: 1930.110179
label: catalog number
content: 16332.017
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Hand-Color Lithograph
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 23.6 cm; 7 1/16 in x 9 5/16 in