This engraved wood block was used to print an image in the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Zoophytes," 1846, Volume 7, Chapter 4, "Actinoidea," page 77, figure 35, calcareous lamellae. The image was drawn by Joseph Drayton and was engraved by an unknown artist. It was originally printed by C. Sherman of Philadelphia.
The image on this lithographic stone was prepared to print an image in the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 10, "Geology - Atlas," 1849. The image depicts "Oregon Fossils, Plate 21." The images was prepared by the lithographic firm Sarony & Major after illustrations by James Dwight Dana.
This engraved wood block was used to print an image in the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Zoophytes," 1846, Volume 7, Chapter 4, "Actinoidea," page 32, figure 13, spicules of the Actinia. The image was drawn by Joseph Drayton and was engraved by an unknown artist. It was originally printed by C. Sherman of Philadelphia.
This engraved wood block was used to print an image in the publication "Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," 1844, Volume 3, page 272. The image was drawn by A.T. Agate. It was engraved by R.H. Pease, and originally printed by C. Sherman of Philadelphia in 1844.
This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "View from the Pass to the Upper Town, Somo Somo" for the publication "The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," 1844, Volume 3, page 318 in the edition Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1845. The engraving was produced by the firm of Smillie & Hinshelwood after a sketch by A. T. Agate.
This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Chinook Lodge" for the publication "The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," 1844, Volume 4, preceding page 341, in the edition Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1845. The engraving was produced by R. W. Dodson after a sketch by A. T. Agate.
This electrotype of “Hu’petha” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate 28 (p.163) in an article by Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923) and Francis La Flesche (1857-1932) entitled “The Omaha Tribe” in the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1905-1906.
This engraved wood block was used to print an image in the publication "Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," 1844, Volume 5, page 48. The image was drawn by A. T. Agate. It was engraved by R. S. Gilbert, and originally printed by C. Sherman of Philadelphia in 1844.
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Reuben S. Gilbert (about 1815–about 1850) engraved this printing block after a drawing, Drummond's Islander, from the Kingsmill Island group by Expedition Artist Alfred T. Agate. The wood engraving illustration was published on page 45 of Volume V of the U.S. Exploring Expedition Narrative by Charles Wilkes, 1844.
This engraved wood block was used to print an image in the publication "Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," 1844, Volume 1 (page 56 of the Lea & Blanchard 1845 stereotyped copy). The image was drawn by A. T. Agate. It was engraved by J. H. Brightly, and originally printed by C. Sherman of Philadelphia in 1844.
The image on this lithographic stone was prepared to print an image in the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 10, "Geology - Atlas," 1849. The image depicts "Oregon Fossils, Plate 17." The images was prepared by the lithographic firm Sarony & Major after illustrations by James Dwight Dana.
This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Temple of Kaili, Island of Hawaii" for the publication "The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," 1844, Volume 4, following page 100, in the edition Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1845. The engraving was produced by F. Humphreys after a sketch by Titian Ramsey Peale.
This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Wreck of the Peacock" for the publication "The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," 1844, Volume 4, following page 492, in the edition Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1845. The engraving was produced by T. House after a sketch by A. T. Agate.
This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Aurora Australis" for the publication "The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," 1844, Volume 2, following page 341, in the edition Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1845. The engraving was produced by William H. Dougal after a sketch by Charles Wilkes.