Lithograph of bird species "Centurus uropygialis"
Lithograph of bird species "Centurus uropygialis"
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- Description
- This lithograph of “Centurus uropygialis [Baird]”, now "Melanerpes uropygialis" or the Gila woodpecker, was drawn by an unknown artist. It was printed as Plate XXXVI in the zoological report of volume X 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, “Report of Exploration for a Railway Route (near the thirty–fifth Parallel of North Latitude) from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, by Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, Corps of Topographical Engineers; assisted by Lieutenant J.C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers.” Though the zoological report was ready in 1853–1854, the volume was not printed until 1859 by A.O.P. Nicholson in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Hand-Color Lithograph
- Hand-Color Lithograph
- date of book publication
- 1859
- 1859
- Whipple, Amiel Weeks
- Ives, Joseph Christmas
- original artist
- Kennerley, Caleb Burwell Rowan
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- printer
- Nicholson, A. O. P.
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- original artist
- Mollhausen, H. B.
- location of book publication
- United States: District of Columbia
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18.8 cm x 24.5 cm; 7 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in
- ID Number
- GA.16332.089
- catalog number
- 16332.089
- accession number
- 1930.110179
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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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