Chromolithograph of "Los Angeles"
- Description
- This chromolithograph of “Los Angeles” was originally drawn by Charles Koppel. It was printed as Plate X in the first report of volume V of Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, “Explorations in California for Railroad Routes, to Connect with the Routes near the 35th and 32nd Parallels of North Latitude by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers.” The volume was printed in 1857 by Beverley Tucker in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- print
- Object Type
- Chromolithograph
- date made
- 1856
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- printer
- Tucker, Beverley
- author
- Williamson, Robert Stockton
- original artist
- Koppel, Charles
- graphic artist
- unknown
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- Physical Description
- paper (overall materials)
- ink (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 23.3 cm x 29.8 cm; 9 3/16 in x 11 3/4 in
- location of book publication
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- ID Number
- GA*10729.36
- accession number
- 1918.62261
- subject
- Art
- Communications
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Measuring & Mapping
- Military
- Natural Resources
- Science & Mathematics
- Transportation
- Survey Prints
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- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Survey Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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