Unattributed “Bowery, Mint & President’s House Great Salt Lake City”

Unattributed.  “Bowery, Mint & President’s House Great Salt Lake City.” 

From Captain Howard Stansbury’s  Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a Reconnoissance of A New Route through the Rocky Mountains.  Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.  Approx.  4 1/2 x 7 ¾.  Tinted lithograph by Ackerman.  Very good condition. 

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In 1849 the U.S. Government commissioned Howard Stansbury, a Captain in the U.S. Topographical Engineers, to survey the trail from Fort Leavenworth west to the Great Salt Lake.  Stansbury was the first to accurately survey this route and of the Great Basin around the Great Salt Lake.  The full survey from Kansas, across the southern Rockies, and around the Utah Valley took about two years, at the end of which Stansbury submitted his report to Congress in 1852, which included a large folding map and many views.