Images

A Portrait of George Rogers Mansfield. Washington, D.C. 1934. Mansfield was a geologist.

U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station 08110500 Navasota River near Easterly, Texas, looking upstream, June 7, 1934.

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Image scan of a historical bird migration card.

Topographer George Stanley Druhot with a plane table and alidade. Recorder R.H. Moore is sitting against the Pierce Arrow in the background. A stadia rod is visible on the second car.

A topographer maps the north half of the Lovelock 1-degree quadrangle in the desert area near Jungo, Nevada. The umbrella protected the instrument from temperature variations.

A topographic field party crossing a snowdrift at the head of Grand Creek above their camp near Moose Lake while mapping the Mt. Constance quadrangle in the Olympic Mountains of Washington.

A USGS topographer works with a plane table and alidade to create a 1:180,000 scale topographic map near Imlay, Nevada. The umbrella is to protect the instrument from temperature variations.

Topographer George Stanley Druhot working with a tripod, planetable, and alidade at Kahekili Leap, on the island of Oahu. His two companions are Malcolm Springer and Tai Hai Lau

Two topographers working with an alidade and plane table. The man on the right is believed to be Roland Whitman Burchard, who was the topographer for the USGS Grand Canyon Expedition of 1923. Author Lewis Freeman described Burchard as a man of "powerful physique, great endurance, and a cool, steady hand."

Topographer George Stanley Druhot running a level line on oil-shale cliffs north of the Colorado River. The level line was one mile long and climbed 2,000 feet over talus slopes.

R.R. Monbeck on the rim of Haleakala volcano on the island of Maui

September 21, 1923, 9:00 a.m. --- Colorado River at Lees Ferry. From right bank on line with Klohr's house and gage house. Old "Dugway" or inclined gage shows to left of gage house. Gage height 11.05', discharge 27,000 cfs. Lens 16, time =1/25, camera supported. Photo by G.C. Stevens of the USGS. Source: 1921-1937 Surface Water Records File, Colorado R.

The Grand Canyon survey party at Lees Ferry. Left to right: Leigh Lint, boatman; H.E. Blake, boatman; Frank Word, cook; C.H. Birdseye, expedition leader; R.C. Moore, geologist; R.W. Burchard, topographer; E.C. LaRue, hydraulic engineer; Lewis Freeman, boatman, and Emery Kolb, head boatman.

Image scan of a historical bird migration card.

Rod man Koontz holding a stadia rod.

A placard featuring Julia Anna Gardner that is part of the Veteran's Memorial outside of the John Wesley Powell Federal Building in Reston, Va. 

USGS triangulation tower in West Texas.

Oscar Edward Meinzer, First Chief, Groundwater Resources. He was an early or first scientist to recognize the elasticity of soils, and artesian wells, and its importance, to measuring water resources. circa 1916.

The panorama shows Cimarron River-bed operations in a portion of the Cushing Oil Field on December 2, 1915. The view is looking to the southwest from a river overlook located in Creek County, Oklahoma. The panorama was constructed from two photographs taken by A.E. Fath

Forsythe Peak and Dorothy Lake, Yosemite National Park, 1913. Photograph by Richard B. Dole, U.S. Geological Survey

Hauling drinking water from Upper St. Mary’s Lake, Glacier National Park, 1913. Photograph by Richard B. Dole, U.S. Geological Survey