Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Valley in the slope of the Great Basin: leading from the Tejon Pass [California/Nevada]
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Koppel, Charles (active ca. 1854), German, artist
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Group Creator Name:
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- A. Hoen & Company (active ca. 1854), lithographer
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Title:
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Valley in the slope of the Great Basin: leading from the Tejon Pass [California/Nevada]
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Date:
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[not before 1854]
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Materials:
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print on paper: lithograph, color
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Dimensions:
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22.9 x 28.4 cm.
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Current Location:
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Bancroft Library.
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Object ID:
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BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:14--A
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Subject:
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- California, Southern
- Expeditions & surveys
- Nevada
- Railroads
- West
(U.S.)
- Illustrations
- Landscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Heading:
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Content/Description:
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Notes:
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Desert landscape with tall cactus, surrounded by hills. Several figures on horseback make way across valley.
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Heading:
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Notes/Inscriptions:
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Notes:
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Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, Cal[ifornia]; (UR): Geology plate XI. Printed (LL): From a sketch by Ch[arle]s Koppel; (LR): Lith. by A.Hoen & Co., Balto. Likely from the United States Pacific Railroad Survey in California, under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf0p3006j7
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