| Survey artist, painter. Born in Germany. When Congress authorized a survey of a possible railroad route connecting the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast, Koppel was engaged as the official artist and civil engineer for the California portion of the expedition. The party sailed from New York and arrived in San Francisco in 1853. The survey began in Benicia and ended in San Diego with reports, filling 12 volumes, which credit Koppel with 21 full-page lithographs and 26 (showing 500 of 869 characters). |
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