Sangre de Cristo Pass From Near the Summit Looking Down Gunnison's Creek
date: label: date made
content: 1855
name: label: original artist
content: Kern, Richard H.
label: original artist
content: Stanley, John Mix
label: graphic artist
content: A. Hoen & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Sangre dde Cristo ass From Near the Summit Looking Down Gunnison's Creek" 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 38, 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: location of print publication
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
label: location of book publication
content: United States: District of Columbia
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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.16332.013
label: accession number
content: 1930.110179
label: catalog number
content: 16332.013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.4 cm x 29.6 cm; 9 3/16 in x 11 5/8 in