The odometer, Upper Geyser Basin. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871.
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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 [...]
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 revolutions, and measured the surface of the country over which we passed. These were the first wheels that were ever taken into this little-know region.
Published on page 28, middle photograph, of the USGS GIP, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden and the Founding of the Yellowstone National Park.
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Descriptive catalogue of the photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1875, inclusive: Miscellaneous publications - No. 5
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Jackson, W.H. Collection.
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