Chromolithograph of "Great Basin from the Summit of Tejon Pass"
Chromolithograph of "Great Basin from the Summit of Tejon Pass"
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- Description
- This chromolithograph of “Great Basin from the Summit of Tejon Pass” was originally drawn by William P. Blake (1826–1910), the mineralogist and geologist of the expedition. It was printed as "Geology, Plate V" in the geological report of the second part 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, “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” written by William P. Blake. The volume was printed in 1857 by Beverley Tucker in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Tinted Lithograph
- date made
- 1856
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- printer
- Tucker, Beverley
- Williamson, Robert Stockton
- original artist
- Koppel, Charles
- Koppel, Charles
- graphic artist
- unknown
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- original artist
- Koppel, Charles
- Place Made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Physical Description
- paper (overall materials)
- ink (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 29.8 cm x 23.2 cm; 11 3/4 in x 9 1/8 in
- ID Number
- GA.10729.33
- accession number
- 1918.62261
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- Natural Resources
- Survey Prints
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Transportation
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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