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Drawing board with mount for a tripod. Used in field survey work. This is a particularly fine example in pristine condition.
Object ID: USGS-Temp47

Manufactured by American Instrument Company. Survey instrument to take measurements from the Sun.
Object ID: USGS-000471

Drawing board with mount for a tripod. Used in field survey work. This is a particularly fine example in pristine condition.
Object ID: USGS-Temp47

Named for co-inventors Ed Helley and Winchell Smith; built in the 1960s by Vigus and Lyle, machinists in the Geology Department of the University of California, Berkeley. This sampler was first used in California and later at several locations around the country.

The cardinal points are lettered N, W, S and E, graduated to degrees and numbered every ten degrees to 360. The connecting sights fold away for storage. Manufactured by Keuffel & Esser, New York.
Object ID: USGS-000162

Manufactured by American Instrument Company. Survey instrument to take measurements from the Sun.
Object ID: USGS-000471

Post WWII instrument manufactured by Zeiss/Keuffel & Esser (K+E), New York and New Jersey.
Luna Leopold was the Director of the Water Resource Discipline at the USGS.
Object ID: USGS-000495

Manufactured by American Instrument Company. Survey instrument to take measurements from the Sun.
Object ID: USGS-000471

Open-sight Alidades. This type of alidade is a straightedge with a sighting device parallel to the edge. Early alidades were simple bars with open sights on either end, while telescopic alidades were introduced in the early 1800s. The examples here of solid brass and an early plastic/wood combination.
Object ID: USGS-000629, USGS-000631

Manufactured by Coleman Electric Company, Inc., Maywood, Illinois; serial #9171, 1940s. This instrument was used in the U.S. Geological Survey Water-Quality office/laboratory in Worland, Wyoming which opened in 1946 and closed in 1982. It was used to measure how much color spectra was absorbed by water.

Manufactured by C.L. Berger & Sons, Boston, Massachusetts, serial #27124. The company was founded by Christian Louis Berger (1842-1922) who was born at Stuttgart, Germany and moved to Boston in 1866. In 1871 he joined with George Louis Buff, and began trading as Buff & Berger.

The pointer is a souvenir from the Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress held in Tokyo in 1926. A prominent geologist, Noble (1882-1965) spent his entire career with the U.S. Geological Survey.

The pointer is a souvenir from the Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress held in Tokyo in 1926. A prominent geologist, Noble (1882-1965) spent his entire career with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Manufactured by C.L. Berger & Sons, Boston, Massachusetts, serial #27124. The company was founded by Christian Louis Berger (1842-1922) who was born at Stuttgart, Germany and moved to Boston in 1866. In 1871 he joined with George Louis Buff, and began trading as Buff & Berger.

Manufactured by Precision Radiation Instruments, Los Angeles, California, 1950s. The instrument was used in the Rocky Mountain States, as well as by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey in the 1960s.
Object ID: USGS-000667

Manufactured by Precision Radiation Instruments, Los Angeles, California, 1950s. The instrument was used in the Rocky Mountain States, as well as by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey in the 1960s.
Object ID: USGS-000667

This is one of many heavy, canvas and leather panniers. They were used by Arnold Hague in the late 1800s and are no longer made or used. Many are imprinted with "US Geol. Sur."
Object ID: USGS-000037

This canvas cinch was developed by Dr. J. D. Love. This type of cinch was used to protect sores from developing on animals that carried surveying or camp equipment for field scientists.
Object ID: USGS-000039

This is Arnold Hague's saddle. The saddle is likely about 120 years old and in the western style with a sheepskin liner. Arnold Hague used this saddle on his expeditions in the west.
Object ID: USGS-000015

This desk, used in the field, was originally made for the US Army. The drawers all pull into the desk and the writing surface of the desk then folds up for transport. Often, scientists took advantage of surplus items for their field work.
Object ID: USGS-000017

This is a set of food preparation tools used in the field. Included in the mess kit are cups, pans, interchangeable lids and handles, a strainer, a coffeepot and a hot water pot. This kit was used by field scientists in the west.
Object ID: USGS-000135-136, 138-144, 146 & 148-150