Portable Field Desk
This desk, used in the field, was originally made for the US Army. The drawers all pull into the desk and the writing surface of the desk then folds up for transport. Often, scientists took advantage of surplus items for their field work. Object ID: USGS-000017...
Location: USA

Field Table
This is a rolltop table used by Arnold Hague. The table top is made of oilcloth and rolls up. The table, legs and frame can be collapsed for easy travel and the package can then be carried on a wooden pack saddle. Object ID: USGS-000023...
Location: USA

J. W. Powell's Appointment as USGS Director
J. W. Powell's Appointment as Director, U.S.Geological Survey This single-page document, signed in Washington, D.C., on 21, March 1881, is the appointment of John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) as Director of the United States Geological Survey (1881-1894). It is signed by President James A. Garfield an...
Location: USA

Tagged Marker Stake
Used in U.S. Geological Survey field work. Object ID: USGS-000209...
Location: USA

Denver Display
Director's Display in Denver Colorado. It displays surveying equipment used by USGS field scientists. Some of the instruments included are engineer's levels, transits, hand-held transits, altimeters and microscopes. Object ID: USGS-DenverDisplay(1of2)...
Location: USA

Denver Display
Director's Display in Denver Colorado. It displays surveying equipment used by USGS field scientists. Some of the instruments included are engineer's levels, transits, hand-held transits, altimeters and microscopes. Object ID: USGS-DenverDisplay(2of2)...
Location: USA

New Accessions Arriving at Field Records
Materials arrive from across the country to be accessioned and processed at the Denver Library, Field Records Collection. Geologic Discipline scientists are encouraged to deposit their project materials and with the Field Records Collection. Materials in the collection are managed as Federal records...
Location: Denver, CO, USA

Compact Storage
After a detailed inventory is completed and published on the web, processed materials are stored in compact shelving in the Field Records Collection. Collections are organized by scientist and project....
Location: Denver, CO, USA

On File at the Field Records Collection
The Field Records Collection in Denver houses materials generated from nearly 130 years of scientific investigations by more than 1200 scientists. The Denver Library, Field Records Collection includes approximately 24,000 notebooks (pictured) and files, 6000 map groups, and 80,000 aerial photographs...
Location: Denver, CO, USA

Researching Historical Collections
The Field Records Library provides reference and research assistance to USGS scientists and staff, as well as to a wide range of researchers from other Federal and State agencies, and the general public. Subject matter of interest ranges from geology, history of the USGS, and history of the earth sc...
Location: Denver, CO, USA

From Card Catalog to Website
Organization and inventorying of the collection is an ongoing project. The Denver Library is converting card catalog records and inventory documents into a web accessible database in which inventories may be searched by keyword or browsed by scientist. The new website went live for USGS and public u...
Location: Denver, CO, USA

Field Notes
The Field Records Collection has many materials types including: field notebooks, sketches, annotated maps, unpublished manuscripts, plane-table sheets, annotated aerial photographs, sample analysis, stratigraphic columns, lithologic logs, and geologic cross sections. Materials in the Field Records ...
Location: Denver, CO, USA

Records Preservation
Older materials and recently arrived items in the Field Records Collection are in various states of preservation and documentation. In the current reorganization project, items are inventoried for content, transferred to archival storage containers, and archived as shelf items (notebooks and file fo...
Location: Denver, CO, USA

Central Region Library Field Records Collection
The USGS Denver Library, Field Records Collection is an archive of unpublished field notes, maps, correspondence, manuscripts, analysis reports, and other data created or collected by USGS Geologic Discipline scientists during field studies and other project work. Materials in the collection represe...
Location: Denver, CO, USA

USGS Scientist at Work
A USGS scientist operates an X-ray diffraction machine at the National Center in Reston, VA. ...
Location: Reston, VA, USA