Channel: Auctions Auction Title: Proxibid Antiques and Collectibles Auction Start Date: 1/14/2009 11AM Estimate: $170.00 - $220.00 USD Dealer: Gabor - Bonniere Productions Ltd Contact: Pascal Bonniere
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Description: U.S.P.R.R. SURVEY LITHOGRAPHS (1855) Original lithographs from the United States Pacific Rail Road Surveys COO-CHE-TO-PA PASS -View looking up Sahwatch Creek Richard.H. Kern Tinted lithograph by Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York (1855) 12 x 9 inches **HISTORY** In 1853, the U.S. congress sent several teams of surveyors from the Corps of Topographical Engineers to survey potential rail routes from the Misssissippi to the Pacific. They were accompanied by naturalists and artists who were to capture the images of the "wild west". It was a dangerous expedition with Captain John W. Gunnison, artist R.H Kern, and seven others from Gunnison's survey team being killed in October of 1853, by the Ute Indians in Utah. These lithographs were part of the official government report which would ultimately determine the rail route and forever change the United States.

Status: For Sale	Reference#: USPRR101COO
Condition: very good	Year: 1885
Height: 9
Width: 12
Title: U.S.P.R.R. Survey lithograph (1885)

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