V-2503: Original color-lithograph of “THE PLAZA AND CHURCH OF EL PASO” from THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO BOUNDARY SURVEY by William H. Emory under direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Drawn by Augustus de Vaudricourt.
Image size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches.
Published in New York, c. 1857. (Ref: Deak: Picturing America, #649 - illustrated).
This view depicts the large adobe church in El Paso del Norte “the name signifying the easiest route, along the Rio Grande, by which the Spanish passed into the unknown north”.
Vaudricourt made his drawing of El Paso as a member of an official American team, headed by William H. Emory, that set out to survey the United States/Mexican boundary in the mid-19th century.
Some light foxing evident, verso blank.
