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Rocky Mountain Region Hayden Survey letters received :
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U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region views
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A scrapbook album containing a collection of 339 stereograph halves, with accompanying printed labels, of views documenting John Wesley Powell's surveys of the Green and Colorado Rivers and other parts of the canyon regions for the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Views are divided into two main series, with "Views on the Green River" and "Views on the Colorado River" as the first, and subseries including "Glen Canon," "Marble Canon," "Cataract Canon," and "Grand Canyon"; the second series covers tributaries of the Green and Colorado Rivers with "Views on Kanab Creek"; "Views on the Rio Virgen"; "Views on the Sevier River"; "Views on Colob Plateau"; "Views in the Uinkaret mountains"; "Views on the Escalante River"; "Views on Vermillion Creek"; "Views on Ashley's Creek"; and "Views on Brush Creek". Most of the images are focused on the natural features of the terrain, but a few include members of the survey team. Credited photographers are E.O. Beaman, John K. Hillers, and J. Fennimore.
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Charles H. Hayden letters
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The letters are written to Hayden's brothers and discuss his experience in the mining camp of Fox Creek, California including his attempts at mining and running a butchering business. He also includes details about the bad weather and its effects on the mines in the area. One of the letters is written by friends of Hayden, who also lived in California
mssHM 63723-63727
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U. S. Geological Survey, J. W. Powell, Director Oregon Klamath Sheet
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Before the city of Klamath Falls. Filed with later index map and sheet list. "Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer, A. H. Thompson, Geographer in Charge. Triangulation and Topogrpahy by Eugene Ricksecker. Surveyed in 1885-6 and 7. Edition of Jan 1894." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: contour lines. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: K1 stiscker: Klamath.
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Geologic Atlas of the United States : Hawley sheet, Massachusetts
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Contents, three descriptive sheets and four maps: Geologic map of the United States, explanatory text -- Outlines of geology of the Green Mountain Region of Massachusetts / B. K. Emerson -- Hawley sheet, descriptive text / B. K. Emerson -- [Topography] -- Areal geology -- Economic geology -- Structure sections.At head of title: Department of the Interior ; United States Geological Survey ; J. W. Powell, Director.On cover: Index Map.Part of a planned set geologic folios, see Bibliography and index of the publications of the United States Geological Survey, 1893, p.306.This atlas does not appear in Publications of the Geological Survey, 1879-1961, 1964. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: contour lines. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. References: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections copy has a ms. note by Emerson mounted inside front cover: "The Hawley sheet was printed but not published because it was decided that it would be to[o] expensive to print the geological maps on the scale of inch to the mile. A few copies were distributed." MA. .
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Summits of the Sierras
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An album of 41 mammoth plate photographs by Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) of the peaks, lakes, and topography of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and views of surveyors and their mountain camp. In 1879, Watkins was commissioned to travel to the peaks of California's Sierra Nevada mountains to photograph the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey led by George Davidson (1825-1911). The photographs in this album were made during that commission, in the summer of 1879. The album opens with a scene of people positioned in front of a hotel on the shore of Lake Independence, followed by views across the lake looking up toward Mount Lola. Watkins then ascended to the survey base at the top of Mount Lola (9,148 ft.), where he made several photographs of the vistas and details of the rocky terrain, including trees, rivers, canyons, and lakes. He also climbed to the summit of Round Top (10,381 ft.), and made several photographs from that viewpoint, including one carefully orchestrated view of Davidson and his team posed with their instruments and an observation hut on the craggy summit. Occasional figures appear on ridgelines in the photographs, and tents and wooden huts erected by the survey team are seen in some views.
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William Miller letter to Henry John Temple Palmerston
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In this annual letter to Lord Palmerston regarding trade returns, Miller writes that "the Transit Trade at Honolulu has increased considerably in consequence of the great demand for Goods which has been created by the discovery of the Gold Region of California." The quantity of coffee and sugar being produced is increasing, and being shipped to markets on the American west coast. He also writes of the status of colonists in the Sandwich Islands, including British, American, and French subjects. Typescript of original held by the Territorial Archives of Hawaii.
mssHM 16736