Peaks of the Sierra Blanca, from Near Fort Massachusetts
date: label: date made
content: 1855
name: label: original artist
content: Stanley, John Mix
label: original artist
content: Kern, Richard H.
label: graphic artist
content: Sarony, Major, & Knapp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Peaks of the Sierra Blanca, from Near Fort Massachusetts" was produced by Sarony, Major & Knapp (1857--1867), New York, 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 42, 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
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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.10729.29
label: accession number
content: 62261
label: catalog number
content: 10729.29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall materials)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.5 cm x 30 cm; 8 7/8 in x 11 13/16 in