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USGS Topographer at Work
A USGS topographer works with a plane table and alidade to create a 1:180,000 scale topographic map near Imlay, Nevada. The umbrella is to protect the instrument from temperature variations....
Location: Imlay, NV, USA

USGS Topographer at Work
A topographer maps the north half of the Lovelock 1-degree quadrangle in the desert area near Jungo, Nevada. The umbrella protected the instrument from temperature variations....
Location: Lovelock, NV, USA

USGS Topographers at Work
A topographic field party crossing a snowdrift at the head of Grand Creek above their camp near Moose Lake while mapping the Mt. Constance quadrangle in the Olympic Mountains of Washington. ...
Location: WA, USA

USGS Topographic Field Party
A mounted topographic field party poses while working on the Dos Cabezas quadrangle in Arizona. 1940-1941. The quadrangle was surveyed by D.H. Rutledge, W.E. Burton, and G.K. Jensen, so it is likely that most or all of them are in this photo....
Location: AZ, USA

USGS Topographic Mapping Field Camp
Topographic mapping field camp under the direction of R.H. Chapman....
Location: Sonora, CA, USA

USGS Topographic Mapping Field Camp
Topographic mapping crew poses in camp in the Cascade Mountains of Washington....
Location: WA, USA

USGS Topographic Mapping Field Camp
USGS topographic mapping field camp in the early 1900s. Note the USGS "pick and hammer" flag flying below the United States flag. It was common practice to fly both flags in USGS field camps. Also note the "US" on the tents. Much of the USGS field gear was obtained from army surplus....
Location: USA

USGS 100th Anniversary Poster
Poster created by USGS cartographer Bob Ginn to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the USGS in 1979. The image is based on a photograph of USGS topographer George Stanley Druhot working at Kahekili Leap on the island of Oahu in 1928....
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA

USGS Topographer at Work
Topographer George Stanley Druhot running a level line on oil-shale cliffs north of the Colorado River. The level line was one mile long and climbed 2,000 feet over talus slopes....
Location: Grand Valley, CO, USA

USGS Topographer at Work
Topographer George Stanley Druhot with a plane table and alidade. Recorder R.H. Moore is sitting against the Pierce Arrow in the background. A stadia rod is visible on the second car....
Location: Fullerton, CA, USA

USGS Topographer at Work
Topographer George Stanley Druhot with a plane table and alidade while mapping the Mt. Constance quadrangle on the Olympic Peninsula....
Location: WA, USA

USGS Topographer at Work
Topographer George Stanley Druhot working with a tripod, planetable, and alidade at Kahekili Leap, on the island of Oahu. His two companions are Malcolm Springer and Tai Hai Lau...
Location: USA

USGS Topographer at Work
R.R. Monbeck on the rim of Haleakala volcano on the island of Maui...
Location: HI, USA

Cartographers in the Field
This Depression-era oil painting was created by USGS field man Hal Shelton in 1940. The painting depicts mapping techniques used in the early days of cartography, including an alidade and stadia rod for determining distances and elevations and a plane-table for sketching contour lines. A USGS benchm...
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA

USGS Elevation Monument
USGS elevation monument for a level line run from Mojave, California to Keeler, California. The line ran through such places as 18-Mile Station, Dixie, Indan Wells, Little Lake, and Olancha. Elevations were based on Benecia datum....
Location: CA, USA

USGS Topographers at Work
A level crew running a line from Mojave, California to Keeler, California via the state road, preparing the way for topographers to follow. R.A. Farmer, just to the left of the long-barreled Engineers WYE level instrument, was the levelman and Chief of Party. Holding the umbrella (used to shield the...
Location: CA, USA

USGS Rod Man
A USGS rod man poses with his leveling rod in Salinas Valley, California....
Location: CA, USA

USGS Topographers at Work
Captain Straughan (right) and rod man Bud Sullivan (left) departing for a day in the field. Straughan has a tripod on his shoulder and a plane table packed in the satchel under his leg. The flagpole in the background is flying a United States flag and a USGS flag - a common practice in mapping field...
Location: USA

USGS Topographers at Work
USGS topographers pose with their leveling instrument and leveling rod....
Location: USA

USGS Topographers at Work
A USGS topographer works with a leveling instrument. The umbrella prevents temperature fluctuations that could affect the leveling bubble in his instrument. The man on the ground is recording elevation data....
Location: USA

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