Joseph Christmas Ives - Wikipedia
From 1857 to 1858, Ives commanded an expedition to explore up the Colorado River from its mouth. He designed, built and tested his own stern-wheel steamboat, then shipped it to the Colorado River Delta. At Robinson's Landing, he reassembled then used the 54-foot steamboat Explorer to map and survey the river.
Colorado Exploring Expedition (Ives Expedition) | Smithsonian …
In order to determine the navigability of the river, the War Department funded the Colorado Exploring Expedition, also known as the Ives Expedition. This topographical corps survey lasted from 1857 to 1858 and was led by Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
The Colorado Exploring Expedition (Ives Expedition) (1857 - 1858)
This topographical corps survey lasted from 1857 to 1858 and was led by Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives. The expedition’s primary objectives were to chart the river's course and conduct a hydrographic survey that included accurately mapping the Colorado and her tributaries in …
Our Collection - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Ives cites the movement of troops into the territory of the Mohave Tribe as the main obstacle in navigating the Colorado during his expedition. Includes fold out maps and sketches throughout the text.
The Colorado Exploring Expedition (Ives Expedition) (1857
This topographical corps survey lasted from 1857 to 1858 and was led by Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives. The expedition’s primary objectives were to chart the river's course and conduct a hydrographic survey that included accurately mapping the Colorado and her tributaries in …
Scientist of the Day - Joseph Christmas Ives - The Linda Hall Library
Dec 25, 2020 · Today we are making that exception, to accommodate Joseph Christmas Ives, born Dec. 25, 1829, in New York City. Ives graduated from West Point, joined the Corps of Topographical Engineers in 1854, and promptly took part in …
IVES, 1857-58 - Southwest Explorations
IVES, 1857-58 The Colorado River Exploring Expedition. While E. F. Beale was building his wagon road across northern Arizona, the United States army organized an expedition to investigate the navigability of the Colorado River for possible use as a transportation corridor into California, Utah, and New Mexico, which then included Arizona.
Early European Maps - Library of Congress
The Ives expedition produced one of the most important early maps of the Grand Canyon. Using shading instead of the traditional hachure marks to indicate differing elevations of the terrain, the topographer F.W. von Egloffstein created an engraved map that is a work of art.
The lasting fame of the Ives-Expedition largely rests on the fact that its members were the first Anglo-Americans – and Germans! – to reach by following upstream the Colorado River from its mouth into the Gulf of California the floor of the Grand Canyon (Reinhartz/Saxon 2005).
Reassessing the Works of a Maligned Explorer and Artist
The hand-drawn maps are by Friedrich von Egloffstein, a forgotten cartographer and landscape artist of the American West. The first map shows the Ives expedition of 1857–8; the other reconstructs portions of the Gunnison-Beckwith expedition of 1853–4.