Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Otis, F. N. (active ca. 1856), American?, artist
Creator Name:
Parsons, Charles R. (1821-1910), American, lithographer and publisher
Group Creator Name:
- Endicott & Co. (active ca. 1854), printer
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Role:
lithographer and publisher
Title:
View of Culebra or the Summit, the terminus of the Panama Railroad in Dec[ember] 1854
Date:
c185[4?]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
25.8 x 36.2 cm., image on sheet 46.3 x 59.4 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0262 (variant)--C
Subject:
- Buildings
- Central America
- Panama
- Railroads
- Settlements
- Voyages to
the Pacific
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Small train with 'US Mail" and "Specie" signs on coach behind engine entering small settlement of few buildings (including American Hotel) and thatched roof log houses. Busy crowd on both sides of rails, pack animals being prepared for travel. Tropical vegetation in foreground.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): C. Parsons lith.; (LC, above title): Sketched from nature by F.N. Otis M.D. Surgeon in U.S.M. Steamship Co.'s Service; (LR): Printed by Endicott & Co. N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below title): Entered... by F.N. Otis 185[4?]... New York. For variant see 1963.002:0262--B.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf6x0nb7r 9

View of Culebra or the Summit, the terminus of the Panama Railroad in Dec[ember] 1854