Mission of San Diego
date: label: date made
content: 1856
name: label: original artist
content: Koppel, Charles
label: publisher
content: Tucker, Beverley
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “Mission of San Diego" was produced after an original sketch by expedition geolologist and artist William P. Blake (1826-1880). It was printed as Plate XII in Volume V, Part II, following page 40, in the "Geological Report by W. P. Blake, Geologist and Minerologist to the Expedition," as part of the “Routes in California, to Connect with the Routes near the Thirty–Fifth and Thirty–Second Parallels, Explored by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, 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) 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.16332.025
label: accession number
content: 1930.110179
label: catalog number
content: 16332.025
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 24.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in