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Album caption and index card: Tower Mountain, opposite Howardsville, Bakers Park. Upon its nearby perpendicular fact of 3,000 feet are exposed a number of quartz veins, traversing its whole length. The one cutting down diagonally from the left is the Mammoth lode. Most of the others are claimed as mineral-bearing veins. San Juan County, Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 69, No. 139: Tower Mountain, opposite Howardsville, Bakers Park. Upon its nearby perpendicular fact of 3,000 feet are exposed a number of quartz veins, traversing its whole length. The one cutting...
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Album caption: Camp study. Smith, topographer. This man was on only the 1871 expedition. 1871. Index card: Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 72, Nos. 173 to 239: Camp-Studies; are a miscellaneous collection of views of the camp and its personnel, showing fully the interior working of the survey while in the field.
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Album caption: Camp group. Captain John Moss. 1874. Index card unavailable. Personal email communication from Alan Terrell on January 16, 2018, "I believe (firmly) that images jwh01113, jwh01114, and jwh01115 were taken on September 6, 1874. Ref: 1874 diary, Jackson and Hafen." Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 74, Nos. 850 to 897: Miscellaneous camp-groups.
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Album caption and index card: Trachytic bluffs on the Rio Grande, at the mouth of Lost Trail Creek. The trachyte is exposed over a considerable portion of the mountains, and is particularly noticeable in being banded into bright tints of green, blue, violet, and yellow. Hinsdale County, Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 68, No. 129: Trachytic bluffs on the Rio Grande, at the mouth of Lost Trail Creek. The trachyte is exposed over a considerable portion of the mountains, and is particularly noticeable in being banded into bright tints of green, blue, violet,...
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Album caption and index card: A panoramic view from Sultan Mountain. View sweeps the entire horizon from the center of the San Juan Mountains, the most rugged mass of mountain peaks of the whole Rocky Mountain Range. View west from Sultan Mountain. San Juan County, Colorado. 1874. (Panorama with photo nos. 486 - 488, jwh00486, jwh00487, jwh00488) Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 69, Nos. 141, 142, 143, 144: A panoramic view from Sultan Mountain. The above four numbers, with No. 140, sweep the entire horizon from the center of the San Juan Mountains, the most rugged mass of...
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Album caption: Views amon the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Camp scene. Flipping flapjacks, "Potato John." Colorado. 1874. (Stereoscopic view) Index card: Jackson, W. H. 158sv - "Potatoe John" - Flipping flap jacks. Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 74, No. 842, "John, the cook, baking slapjacks." Personal email communication from Alan Terrell on July 28, 2014, "As you know, camera exposures of Jackson's time were too slow to have captured a pancake being flipped in the air as shown in this photograph, without blurring of either the pan,...
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Album caption and index card: Lone Rock, at the entrance to Pleasant Park. A region covered with fantastically shaped red sandstones, about 40 miles south of Denver, and lying just outside the Front Range. Douglas County, Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 67, No. 94: Lone Rock, at the entrance to Pleasant Park. A region covered with fantastically shaped red sandstones, about 40 miles south of Denver, and lying just outside the Front Range.
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Album caption: Camp study. W.H. Jackson. 1874. Index card: Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 72, Nos. 173 to 239: Camp-Studies; are a miscellaneous collection of views of the camp and its personnel, showing fully the interior working of the survey while in the field.
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Album caption: Camp scene. Figure is S.R. Gifford, the artist. This man was only on the 1870 expedition. 1870. Index card unavailable. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 74, Nos. 850 to 897: Miscellaneous camp-groups.
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Album caption: Camp study. W.H. Jackson. n.d. Index card: Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 72, Nos. 173 to 239: Camp-Studies; are a miscellaneous collection of views of the camp and its personnel, showing fully the interior working of the survey while in the field.
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Album caption and index card: The Rio Grande River at Lost Trail Creek. The stream has become so divided among its tributaries that it is here hardly more than a mountain brook. Near by is Jennison's, or Carr's cabin, a favorite stopping place before crossing the range into Bakers Park. The elevation here is 9,600 feet. Hinsdale County, Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 68, No. 130: The Rio Grande River at Lost Trail Creek. The stream has become so divided among its tributaries that it is here hardly more than a mountain brook. Near by is Jennison's, or Carr's...
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Album caption and index card: San Miguel Lake, now called Trout Lake. The Rio San Miguel Lake, now called Trout Lake. The Rio San Miguel is one of the lower tributaries of the Gunnison River, rising in the heat of the San Juan Mountains, from which as a center radiate all the principal streams of the southwest. The lake is small, not more than a mile in length, and well filled with trout. It occupies a little valley at the foot of the mountains, at an elevation of 9,720 feet above the sea. Bear Creek Pass, the depression in the center of the view, is 12,600 feet high. The sharp peak on the left is station 30, 13,897 feet altitude. San Miguel County, Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the...
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Album caption: Camp scene. Figure is Carrington. n.d. No index card. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 74, Nos. 850 to 897: Miscellaneous camp-studies; are a miscellaneous collection of views of the camp and its personnel, showing fully the interior working of the survey while in the field. Refer to W.H. Jackson photograph number 282, jwh00282 for additional information.
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Album caption: Camp scene. Figure is Steve Hovey, "wagon boss." n.d. Index card unavailable. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 74, Nos. 850 to 897: Miscellaneous camp-groups.
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Album caption: Camp scene. Figure is Dr. Hayden. n.d. Index card unavailable. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 74, Nos. 850 to 897: Miscellaneous camp-groups.
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Album caption and index card: Hot Springs, Middle Park, at the foot of Mount Bross, on the north bank of the Colorado River. The temperature of the springs ranges from 109 to 116 degrees; the water contains sulphur, iron, magnesia, and other mineral properties, said to possess remarkable curative powers. Elevation of springs is 7,725 feet. Grand County, Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 66, no. 74: Hot Springs, Middle Park, at the foot of Mount Bross, on the north bank of the Grand River. The temperature of the springs ranges from 109 to 116 degrees; the water...
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Album caption: Camp scene. Figure is Dr. Turnbull. n.d. Index card unavailable. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 74, Nos. 850 to 897: Miscellaneous camp-groups.
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Album caption: Camp scene. Figure is James Stromson. n.d. Index card unavailable. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 74, Nos. 850 to 897: Miscellaneous camp-groups
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Album caption and index card: Profile rocks in Pleasant Park. Douglas County, Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 67, Nos. 99,100: Profile rocks in Pleasant Park.


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