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Title
Valley in the slope of the Great Basin: leading from the Tejon Pass [California/Nevada]
Creator
Koppel, Charles (active ca. 1854), German, artist A. Hoen & Company (active ca. 1854), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued
[not before 1854]
Publication Information
Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information
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Description
Desert landscape with tall cactus, surrounded by hills. Several figures on horseback make way across valley.
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
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, color 22.9 x 28.4 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0p3006j7
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:14--A
Subject
California, Southern
Expeditions & surveys
Nevada
Railroads
West (U.S.)

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