Galveston Entrance: Bache 1853

Title: Galveston Entrance Author: A. D. Bache Date: 1853 Medium: Wax Engraving Condition: Fair - age toning, wear along issued folds, paper loss in bottom left corner Inches: 18.75 x 15.5 Centimeters: 47.5 x 39 Product ID: 100931 Galveston Entrance Texas From a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A. D. Bache Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States Triangulation by R. H. Fauntleroy and J. S. Williams Assistants Topography by J. M. Wampler Sub-asst Hydrography by the parties under the command of T. A. Craves & A. S. Baldwin Lieuts. U. S. Navy Published in 1853 Scale 1/40000 Surveyor, scientist, and pioneering oceanographer A. D. Bache (1806-1867) served as the 6th Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey. Born in Philadelphia, he came from a prominent political family, and was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Under his leadership, the Coast Survey’s operations grew significantly, expanding from nine to seventeen states as i