View of Ordinary Lateral Ravines on Grand River From Camp Septbr 3
date: label: date made
content: 1855
name: label: graphic artist
content: Kern, Richard H.
label: lithographer
content: Sarony, Major, & Knapp
label: publisher
content: Tucker, Beverley
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “View of Ordinary Lateral Ravines on Grand River From Camp, September 3" was produced by Sarony, Major & Knapp (1857--1867), New York, after a sketch by expedition artist R. H. Kern (1821-1853). It was printed as a plate in Volume II following page 50, 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
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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.10729.18
label: catalog number
content: 10729.18
label: accession number
content: 62261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall materials)
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content: ink (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 30 cm; 8 1/4 in x 11 13/16 in