Chromolithograph of "Fort Massachusetts at the Foot of the Sierra Blanca Valley of San Luis"
Chromolithograph of "Fort Massachusetts at the Foot of the Sierra Blanca Valley of San Luis"
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- Description
- Thomas Sinclair (c.1805–1881) of Philadelphia printed this chromolithograph of “Fort Massachusetts at the Foot of the Sierra Blanca Valley of San Luis” originally drawn by R.H. Kern (1821–1853) of Philadelphia and drafted by John M. Stanley (1814–1872) of Detroit (1834–1840, 1864–1872) and Washington, D.C. (1850–1860). The illustration was printed in the “Report, by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery, upon the Route near the Thirty–Eighth and Thirty–Ninth Parallels, Explored by Captain J. W. Gunnison, Corps Topographical Engineers” of volume II 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. The volume was printed in 1855 by Beverley Tucker in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Tinted Lithograph
- date made
- 1855
- engraver
- Stanley, John Mix
- artist
- Kern, Richard H.
- printer
- Sinclair, T.
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- Beckwith, Edward Griffin
- Gunnison, John Williams
- printer
- Tucker, Beverley
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- Place Made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- paper (overall materials)
- ink (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 21.5 cm x 30 cm; 8 7/16 in x 11 13/16 in
- ID Number
- GA.10729.27
- accession number
- 62261
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Military
- Communications
- Natural Resources
- Science & Mathematics
- Survey Prints
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Transportation
- Art
- Measuring & Mapping
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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