Title:
View of Culebra or the Summit, the terminus of the Panama Railroad in Dec[ember] 1854
Creator/Contributor:
Otis, F. N. (active ca. 1856), American?, artist (artist)
Parsons, Charles R. (1821-1910), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Endicott & Co. (active ca. 1854), printer (printer)
Date:
c1854
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0262--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
25.6 x 36 cm., image on sheet 32.6 x 42.6 cm.
Content/Description:
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.
Notes/Inscriptions:
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 1854...
New York. For variant see 1963.002:0262--C.
Subjects:
Animals;
Buildings;
Central America;
Dwellings;
Panama;
Railroads;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color