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The odometer, Upper Geyser Basin. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871.

Dates

Date Taken
1871

Summary

Album caption and index card: The odometer, made by attaching a pair of shafts to the fore wheels of an ambulance, to the spokes of which were attached the instruments that recorded their revolutions, and measured the surface of the country over which we passed. These were the first wheels that were ever taken into this little-known region. The Upper Geyser Basin - Yellowstone Series. 1871. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 31, No. 301: The odometer, made by attaching a pair of shafts to the fore wheels of an ambulance, to the spokes of which were attached the instruments that recorded their [...]

Contacts

Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Jackson, William Henry

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Type Scheme Key
name photoLibrary jwh01290
number photoLibrary 19554
batch photoLibrary btch200
number_in_book photoLibrary 1290

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