Lithograph of bird species "Carpodacus cassinii and Melospiza fallax"
date: label: date of section
content: 1853-1854
label: date of book publication
content: 1859
name: label: printer
content: Nicholson, A. O. P.
label: author
content: Whipple, Amiel Weeks
label: author
content: Ives, Joseph Christmas
label: original artist
content: Kennerley, Caleb Burwell Rowan
label: publisher
content: U.S. War Department
label: publisher
content: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
label: original artist
content: Mollhausen, H. B.
label: original artist
content: Mollhausen, H. B.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This colored lithograph of "Carpodacus cassinii [Baird] and Melospiza fallax [Baird]" (now "Carpodacus assinii" (Cassin's finch) and "Melospiza melodia fallax (Song sparrow) is believed to have been originally drawn by C. B. R. Kennerly (1830-1861) and H. B. Mollhausen (1825-1905), then drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock (ca 1822-ca 1906), lithographed by Bowen & Company of Philadelphia (ca 1840-1870), and likely hand colored by Bowen firm colorists or Lavinia Bowen (ca 1820- ca 1872).
label: Description (Brief)
content: The image was published as Plate XXVII in the Zoological Report, Volume X, Part VI, No. 3, following page 35 in C. B. R. Kennerly's "Report Upon the Birds of the Route" (near the 35th Parallel explored by Lieutenant Whipple in 1853 and 1855). The report was published in the volume “Reports and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean ... 1853, 1856, Volume X." The volume was printed in 1859 by Beverley Tucker of Washington, D.C.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: United States: District of Columbia
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16332.081
label: catalog number
content: 16332.081
label: accession number
content: 1930.110179
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 23.8 cm; 7 1/16 in x 9 3/8 in