http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg USGS Multimedia Gallery Collection for: Geography http://gallery.usgs.gov/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif USGS http://gallery.usgs.gov/ <![CDATA[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.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_19_2009_ei8Ldp5CBv_10_19_2009_0 <![CDATA[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.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_19_2009_txo0Red5QL_10_19_2009_0 <![CDATA[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.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_19_2009_txo0Red5QL_10_19_2009_1 <![CDATA[Topographer George Stanley Druhot with a plane table and alidade while mapping the Mt. Constance quadrangle on the Olympic Peninsula.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_19_2009_txo0Red5QL_10_19_2009_2 <![CDATA[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]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_19_2009_txo0Red5QL_10_19_2009_3 <![CDATA[R.R. Monbeck on the rim of Haleakala volcano on the island of Maui]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_19_2009_txo0Red5QL_10_19_2009_4 <![CDATA[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 benchmark is visible near the top. The straight white lines represent survey transects. Note the "US" marking on the canteen: many of the USGS field supplies were obtained from Army surplus. This 4 ft. x 6 ft. painting is on display in the USGS library in Menlo Park, California. ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_19_2009_jNEq2UThg0_10_19_2009_0 <![CDATA[Performing color separation scribing of the culture separate of a USGS topographic map using a swivel graver.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_0 <![CDATA[Color separation scribing of the intermediate contours for a USGS topographic map using a freehand scriber. ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_1 <![CDATA[Yutaka Hamamoto working on a Wild A-7 Stereoplanigraph.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_2 <![CDATA[Jay Prendergast adjusts the lens on a Robertson 48-inch, 4.5 ton camera. Installed in 1959, the camera was used for precise scale transformation of mapping separates and composites.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_3 <![CDATA[Bill Campbell operates an Electrical Survey Net Adjuster (ESNA). The ESNA was used for the adjustment of levels and traverse. ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_4 <![CDATA[Map editor Webb Greenup reviews an overlay of the Atwater, CA 7.5-minute topographic quadrangle map.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_5 <![CDATA[Working with a small copy camera.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_6 <![CDATA[Wright Todd applies light-sensitive color solution to a base sheet on a photo lab whirler. This method was used for generating color-composite proofing of map separate registration.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_7 <![CDATA[Using a swivel graver with a steel straight edge to scribe a road onto the culture plate of a topographic map.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_8 <![CDATA[Color separation scribing of the contour plate for a USGS topographic map using a freehand scriber. This handheld stylist was designed to hold a phonograph needle that was sharpened to engrave a .003" scribed line.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_9 <![CDATA[The application of transparent adhesive-backed type to the culture lettering separate of the Miller Peak, AZ 7.5-minute topographic map.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_10 <![CDATA[Calvin Hazlewood works with a 48-inch Robertson copy camera.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_11 <![CDATA[Stereoscopic control point check.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_12 <![CDATA[A USGS map editor plots General Land Office (GLO) data on a Shaw Mountain, Oregon manuscript.]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/10_07_2009_ch8JbnmAYt_10_07_2009_13 <![CDATA[This Landsat 5 satellite acquisition of the Grand Canyon on August 17, 2009 is one of the million scenes downloaded since October 1, 2008. ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_20_2009_u05Ctg1SRm_08_20_2009_0