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314:, which had been produced during the Gunnison expedition. He then traveled to the Gunnison River and located sites which duplicated the vistas shown in the Egloffstein engravings of the nineteenth century. It is now presumed that Congressional staffers working on the 1861 Grand Canyon report misfiled the Egloffstein works, assuming that his "Grand CaĆon" engravings must refer to The Grand Canyon expedition.
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Germany in 1878, living in a house in Hosterwitz near Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony. After his death in 1885 an autopsy was performed to document his widow's claim that he died as a result of infection from his war wound. This claim was accepted by the United States Commissioner of
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Freifrau von Reitzenstein, ed., Ein Mann und seine Zeit 1797-1890. Erinnerungen von Alexander Freiherr vln Reitzenstein-Hartungs (EggstÀtt: Helene Freifrau von Reitzenstein, 1990), 118-19; Steven Rowan, Introduction to Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, The Mysteries of New Orleans (Baltimore and
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Solomon Nunes
Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West (New York, 1857), ed. Ava Kahn (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 22-23; Robert Shlaer, Sights Once Seen: Daguerreotyping Frémont's Last Expedition through the Rockies (Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press,
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Handbuch des Adels, vol. 9, Genealogisches Handbuch der adeligen HĂ€user, series B, vol. 1 (GlĂŒcksburg/Ostiel, 1954), 208-10; United States National Archives, Correspondence of Irmgard von Egloffstein to the Commissioner of Pensions, English translation of the certified marriage
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In 1864 he would publish a study of the mineral resources of the state of MĂ©xico based on reports done in the 1820s by his long-term friend Baron
Friedrich von Gerolt, Prussian Minister to the United States. His maps for this book are regarded as outstanding examples of half-tone and color
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Students of
Egloffstein's work have been baffled by the apparent errors, since Egloffstein was superbly competent - the 1861 report also contains a meticulous and accurate relief map of the Grand Canyon which Egloffstein produced on the trip. It was not until 2001 that an explanation for the
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Egloffstein patented a method for photographically creating half-tone printing plates, which he sought to exploit commercially in the 1860s and 1870s, but with little commercial success. He continued working as an engraver and maker of scale models until his departure from
America in 1878.
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Ives' report contains three engravings and three panoramic line drawings describing the "Big CaĆon" of the
Colorado. One particular stunning depiction was titled "Black CaĆon" by Egloffstein himself, and has generally been understood to depict the section of the
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Colorado River of the West explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, J. A. Humphries, Captain Topographical Engineers, in
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During the Civil War he produced a large map in his contoured style showing the Four Corners region for a report that was only published decades later. It shows paths of all major explorations in the region up to that time.
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Manifest of the ship Elise, National Archives and Records Administration, Film M255, Reel 5, List 40, Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild, vol. 7, posted at www.immigrantships.net/v7/1800v/elise18460831.html. To be used with
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Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West: with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition across the Rocky Mountains: Including Three Months Residence in Utah, and a Perilous Trip across the Great American Desert to the
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United States National Archives, translation of baptism certificate of Magdalene Elisabeth von Egloffstein in the application of Irmgard baroness von Egloffstein for a pension; also Egloffstein, Chronik, p.
334:. His American military career was quickly ended by his serious wounding in late April 1862, in North Carolina, although he did not resign his commission until late 1863. He was granted a
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now stands. These drawings have been criticized for over a hundred years by those who have subsequently visited the Canyon, since his depictions in no way resemble the actual terrain.
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Most dates of F. W. von Egloffstein's death in the reference literature specifically cite Clarence Leon von Egloffstein (1889-1966) as the source for a death in London in 1898.
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United States National Archives, correspondence on the disability claim of Col./Brigadier General F. W. von Egloffstein, supplied by Dr. Albrecht, Baron von und zu Egloffstein.
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Bergstrasse 27. Hosterwitz, Saxony. The house does not survive. Information from Dr. Sönke Friedrich of the Institut fĂŒr SĂ€chsische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Dresden, Saxony.
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David A. Hanson, "Baron Frederick Wilhelm von Egloffstein: Inventor of the First Commercial Halftone Process in America," Printing History, vol. 15, no. 1 (1993), 12-24.
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See Steven K. Madsen, Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010), p. 116.
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expedition up the Colorado. The official report of the 1857-8 expedition to the Grand Canyon was titled "Report Upon the Colorado River of the West", published by
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B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army from its Organization ⊠to March 2, 1902 (Washington, DC, 1903), vol. 1, p. 400.
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Steven Rowan, Maksyimilian Szostalo, "The Baron in West County: Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in St. Louis," Gateway, vol. 25, no. 1 (Summer, 2005).
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Baron F. W. von Egloffstein was serving in the Prussian army as a lieutenant in the 5th (von Neumann or First Silesian) Battalion of Rangers (JĂ€ger) in
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Friedrich von Gerolt, Carlos de Berghes, Carta geognostica de los principales distritos minerales del estado de MĂ©xico ⊠(DĂŒsseldorf: Arnz, 1827).
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Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO: Archives, George Engelmann Papers, Letters of Baron F. W. von Egloffstein to Dr. George Engelmann.
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Ralph H. Waldo, Guide to the Plan Books of the Orleans Parish Notarial Records (1946), found in the Historic New Orleans Collection.
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wrote in 1953 that Egloffstein's images were "markedly inaccurate", saying the depictions "exaggerated verticality and narrowness".
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