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Album caption and index card: Elizabeth King working a graphrectifier - a machine to get the continuous magnetic reading into usable form. October 27, 1952. Personal email communication with Doug Morrison on September 26, 2017, "A photograph of Elizabeth King, USGS geophysicist, using a 'graphrectifier'. Current caption has a date of October 27, 1952 and I have no reason to doubt the date although it is known that Elizabeth was involved with the processing of aeromagnetic date from 1949 or so".
Information on back of photograph: T-161. Robert B. Marshall at Norris Basin, Sept. 11, 1911, looking into a boiling spring. YNP, Wyo. Photo by J. Horace McFarland.
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
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OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Marshall, Robert B. Collection,
National Parks,
Photographers,
Portraits Collection,
Yellowstone National Park.,
Information on back of photograph: T-159. R.B. Marshall and A.D. Hopkins examining the Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. September 10, 1911. Photo by J. Horace McFarland.
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Marshall, Robert B. Collection,
National Parks,
Photographers,
Portraits Collection
Information on back of photograph, "George M. Hall, March 28, 1924." Hall, George Martin, 1891-1941.
Major John Wesley Powell, second director of the USGS. Served from March 1881- June 1894. Profile early in his term of office as Director. Stamped on back of photograph: Photo Credit, U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Photo File No. PIO-H-80. Published as John Wesley Powell, second director of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1881-94, on page 19 in the U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product, John Wesley Powell: soldier, explorer, scientist (1970).
Album caption: Mary E. Hill (now Mrs. John D. Strobell) and Joe Lamping (co-pilot) examining pattern of traverse in advance of flight. n.d. Personal email communication with Doug Morrison on September 15, 2017, "A nice photograph of Mimi Hill and Joseph Lamping leaning on the tailplane of a Twin Beechcraft without much doubt it would be the USGS survey aircraft AT-11 NC44633 taken at Salt Lake City Airport in front of Thompson Flying Service's hangar in 1948. I am not sure whether Joe Lamping was fully employed by the USGS or was a contract pilot. I have heard his name mentioned previously in reference to aerial photography - I am fairly sure he was a well known aerial photographer on top of being a survey...
Oscar Edward Meinzer, first chief, groundwater resources, possibly at that time. He was an early or first scientist to recognize the elasticity of soils, and artesian wells, and its importance, to measuring water resources; later in life, at his desk. 1934.
Album caption: Camp study. W.H. Jackson. n.d. Index card unavailable. Additional information from duplicate photographs: Camp study, William Henry Jackson exploring the Tetons, west side. Included in the April 4, 1972 letter from E.P. Bonney to Nell Carico (USGS), "Mr. Jackson was fond of this photos. This is an unretouched photo. Jackson later retouched one photo placing the derby apperance hat to give it a little snappy slouch look that he used so often." Wyoming. 1872. (NARA photo no. 57-HS-595) Published on page 30, upper left photograph, of the USGS GIP, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden and the Founding of the Yellowstone National Park.
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
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OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Four Great Surveys of the West,
Hayden Survey,
Jackson, W.H. 1872 Series,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
Pioneer Photographers,
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