Chromolithograph of "Mission and Plain of San Fernando"
date: label: date made
content: 1856
name: label: publisher
content: U.S. War Department
label: printer
content: Tucker, Beverley
label: author
content: Williamson, Robert Stockton
label: author
content: Blake, William Phipps
label: original artist
content: Koppel, Charles
label: graphic artist
content: unknown
label: publisher
content: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Mission and Plain of San Fernando” was originally drawn by an expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate VI following page 74 in the "Geological Report by W. P. Blake (1826-1910), Geologist and Minerologist to the Expedition," as part of Volume V, Part II of the "Report of Lieutenant R. S. Williamson (1825-1882), Corps of Topographical Engineers, Upon the Routes in California to Connect with the Routes Near the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-second Parallels" by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson ... 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) in Washington, D.C.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.10729.38
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: 29.9 cm x 23.3 cm; 11 3/4 in x 9 3/16 in