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Album caption: Cut JKO showing dumps. Himalaya mine, Cal. Handwritten notes on album caption: Mesa Grande. Ramona Q. 1904. No index card available.
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Album caption: Brownie, our mascot from the Parker Ranch camp at Hopuwai on the Keanakolu trail below. Apparently he is looking for wild pigs or sheep. The elevation here is 10,000 feet above sea level. 12.26.26. 5:10 p.m. No index card.
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Album Caption: Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho. North Crater basalt flow. Picture taken from the crater rim looking down into the crater where the flow (light gray) welled up from the vent and poured out away from the camera breaching the far wall and flowed away to the right, carrying large hunks of cinder from the crater wall. 1952. Arco, Butte County, Idaho.
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Album caption: Illustration of a drafting trainee, consistent line wieght and smoothness of line is emphasized. An employee is trained approximately two months before going on production. No index card. Note on album: Photographed and compiled by E.F. Patterson, August 1952. Published as figure 23 in the USGS Circular 1341, History of the Topographic Branch (Division). Caption from published photo, Figure 23. Pen-and-ink drafting for map production was used from the early 1940s through the mid-1950s. Inking contours by hadn required a light touch to maintain consistent line weight (1952). Email communication USGS employee on May 26, 2021, "... it looks like a scope they used to determine line widths and spacing....
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Trochammina. Northern Alaska. n.d. Plate 38 in U.S.Geological Survey Professional Paper 236. 1962.
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Album caption: Falls in creek flowing into Lake Ruth from west. No index card available.
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Album caption: View northward up Zion Canyon, south western Utah. From base of rock cliffs on east wall 700 feel above the canyon bottom, about two miles above Springdale. Washington County, Utah. Index card: View N. up Zion Canyon (Scenic). Zion National Park. 1910. See also anr00241 and anr00242.
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Album caption: View down the Grand Canyon from same point from which picture 175 was taken. 9-2-23. E.C.L. Index card: View down Grand Canyon from right bank 600 feet above the river and 1/2 mile above Bass Trail Crossing (Bass Rapid?). Grand Canyon National Park. Coconino County, Arizona. September 2, 1923.
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Album caption: No caption furnished. No index card.
Categories: Image; Tags: Topography B, photo print
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Album caption: Central Region Cartography Section, Photogaphic Services Unit. Third row, left to right: Robert F. Hardebeck, Hardin Hardesty, James L. Howard, Everett A. Campbell, James M. Williams, Jr., and Homer D. Love. Second row, left to right: Calvin E. Hazelwood, Joseph E. Guidicini, Francis S. Wiley, and Jesse N. Berry First row left to right: Mary A. Freeze, Kurt Linde, and Iris J. Byer. No index card. Note on album: Photographed and compiled by E.F. Patterson, August 1952.
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Album caption: Mt. Rainier Nat. Park, Mt. Rainier with cloud cap, Willis Wall on right hand side, White Glacier divided by Steamboat Rock into White and Winthrop Glaciers near center of picture. Gibraltar showing under cloud cap on left side of mountain. Inter Glacier on slip of Steamboat Rock. Range is foreground is part of Sour Dough Mtns. Looking south, Aug. 4, 1913, picture by W.O. Tufts, Topg. Engr. Handwritten notes on album caption: Pierce County. No index card.
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Limestone conglomerate, intraformational, from below lower part of Kenneberg Formation, Reed and Benson Ridges. Salt Lake County, Cottonwood District, Utah. Circa 1936. Published in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 201, Plate 13-B. 1943.
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Cross section of basaltic next exposed by erosion in Grant Ridges, 6 miles northeast of Grant, view looking southwest in sec. 3, T. 11 S., R. 9 W. Basalt in core is jointed in vertical columns and surrounded by a thin zone of platy jointing developed along the contact with white tuff. Bedded breccia overlies the tuff, and basaltic lava overlies the breccia on the far side of the cone. The tuff, chiefly rhyolitic, was erupted from Mount Taylor. Valencia County, New Mexico. 1931. Plate 11-A, U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 189-B. 1938. Album: Hunt #62, Valencia County, New Mexcio, 1931. T. 11 S., R. 9 W, Sec. 3 View NW. at natural cross-section of a cinder cone 6 miles northeast of Grant. Columnar jointed...
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Album caption: Glacial Lake Nashua. Laminated silts of the Clinton stage, New England Brick Company pit, one-half mile west of Still river Station, Mass. Marlboro quadrangle. Massachusetts. October 12, 1906. USGS Bulletin 760, Pl. 20-B, 1925.( Shadow, 11 a.m. , Ex. 10, D32.) Handwritten note on album caption: Worcester Co.
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Album caption: Travertine Canyon. Enlargement of Kolb's photo 15-110. 1923. Handwritten notes on album caption: Mohave County, Arizona; Grand Canyon 110. No index card.
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Album caption: Scenes along the Horton Line and Paper Co. Spruce Knob quandrangle Oct. 1921. No index card.
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Figure caption: Scanning electron micrograph of obsidian grain from about 26 m in drill hole Y-2. Perlitic cracks and shallow solution pits in the grain are partly filled by clinoptilolite and montmorillonite. Scale bar is 30 microns. No index card. Published as Figure 8 in Zeolites in Yellowstone National Park. The Mineralogical Record; 12: 29-38. Note: Similar to bke00003_mm00716.
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Album caption: Stela F. One of the most distinctive of the stela at Quirigua. It projects 24 feet above the ground. This is the south face and the glyphs are perhaps the most beautifully carved of any among the Maya inscriptions. An unusual feature of this stela is that it has two dates - A.D. 1761 and A.D. 724 which is likely a leap year correction. While Stela F. is one of the tallest here it is not the tallest. Stela E. is the tallest. It is 35 feet long by 5 feet wide and 4 feet thick. It projects 26 feet 6 inches above ground and weights 65 tons. It is the largest piece of stone every quarried by the Maya. Guatemala. 1922. No index card. The Ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala - This Maya archeological site is...


map background search result map search result map Glacial Lake Nashua. Laminated silts of the Clinton stage, New England Brick Company pit, one-half mile west of Still river Station, Massachusetts, 1906. North Crater basalt flow, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Arco, Butte County, Idaho. 1952. Cross section of basaltic next exposed by erosion in Grant Ridges, 6 miles northeast of Grant, view looking southwest. Valencia County, New Mexico. 1931. Trochammina. Northern Alaska. n.d. Mount Rainier with cloud cap, and view of Willis Wall on right side, Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce County, Washington. 1913. Falls in creek flowing into Lake Ruth. Alaska. circa 1922. Eighth century monument, Stela F, ancient Maya archaeological site of Quirigua. Rio Motagua Valley, Guatemala. 1922. Cut JKO showing dumps, Himalaya Mine. Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. 1904. Scenes along the Horton Line and Paper Company. West Virginia. 1921. Travertine Canyon, Mohave County, Arizona. 1923. Brownie, our mascot from the Parker Ranch Camp. Hawaii. 1926. View northward up Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Washington County, Utah. 1910. View down Grand Canyon from right bank 600 feet above the river. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1923. Scanning electron micrograph of obsidian grain from about 26 m in drill hole Y-2. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. No date. Mount St. Helens. Skamania County, Washington. 1980. Cross section of basaltic next exposed by erosion in Grant Ridges, 6 miles northeast of Grant, view looking southwest. Valencia County, New Mexico. 1931. Glacial Lake Nashua. Laminated silts of the Clinton stage, New England Brick Company pit, one-half mile west of Still river Station, Massachusetts, 1906. Mount St. Helens. Skamania County, Washington. 1980. View northward up Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Washington County, Utah. 1910. North Crater basalt flow, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Arco, Butte County, Idaho. 1952. Mount Rainier with cloud cap, and view of Willis Wall on right side, Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce County, Washington. 1913. Travertine Canyon, Mohave County, Arizona. 1923. View down Grand Canyon from right bank 600 feet above the river. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1923. Eighth century monument, Stela F, ancient Maya archaeological site of Quirigua. Rio Motagua Valley, Guatemala. 1922. Scenes along the Horton Line and Paper Company. West Virginia. 1921. Scanning electron micrograph of obsidian grain from about 26 m in drill hole Y-2. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. No date. Cut JKO showing dumps, Himalaya Mine. Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. 1904. Brownie, our mascot from the Parker Ranch Camp. Hawaii. 1926. Trochammina. Northern Alaska. n.d. Falls in creek flowing into Lake Ruth. Alaska. circa 1922.