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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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Types: Map Service,
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Tags: Expeditions,
Four Great Surveys of the West,
Hayden Survey,
Jackson, W.H. 1874 Series,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
Handwritten information on back of photograph: 216. Hot Springs on Gardiner's River, Upper Basin. 1871 Series. No index card. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 25, Nos. 216, 217: Group of Upper Basins. The above series comprise the principal portion of the basins termed fancifully by some Diana's Bathing-Pools.
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
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Tags: Expeditions,
Four Great Surveys of the West,
Hayden Survey,
Jackson, W.H. 1871 Series,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
Album caption and index card: Excelsior Geyser. [Yellowstone National Park] Wyoming. n.d. (Stereoscopic view)
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Tags: Four Great Surveys of the West,
Hayden Survey,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
National Parks,
Pioneer Photographers,
Album caption and index card: Lone Star Geyser. [Yellowstone National Park] Wyoming. 1883?
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Tags: Four Great Surveys of the West,
Hayden Survey,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
National Parks,
Pioneer Photographers,
Album caption and index card: A camp on Henrys Fork, among the big cottonwoods that line all the streams. Daggett County, Utah. 1870. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1870 Series, page 18, No. 130 caption, "A camp on Henrys Fork, among the big cottonwoods that line all the streams."
Album caption and index card: Dale Creek Bridge, Black Hills. Albany County, Wyoming. 1869. (Stereoscopic view)
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Tags: Albany County, Wyoming,
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Album caption and index card: View near head of Crow Creek, west of Cheyenne. Laramie County, Wyoming. 1869.
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Tags: Expeditions,
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Jackson, W.H. Collection,
Album caption and index card: View near head of Crow Creek, west of Cheyenne. Laramie County, Wyoming. 1869.
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Tags: Expeditions,
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Jackson W.H. 1869 Series,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
Album caption: Needle in Bridger Canyon, near Fort Ellis. Gallatin County, Montana. 1872. Index card unavailable. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1872 Series, page 47, Nos. 578-584: Bridger Cañon, near Fort Ellis, Mont.
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Types: Map Service,
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Tags: Expeditions,
Four Great Surveys of the West,
Gallatin County, Montana,
Hayden Survey,
Jackson, W.H. 1872 Series,
Album caption: Colob Country. Southern Utah. n.d. Index card unavailable.
Album caption: Mortar Geyser in eruption on bank of Firehole River. Lower part of Upper Geyser Basin. [Yellowstone National Park] Wyoming. n.d. No index card.
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Tags: Hillers, J.K. Collection,
National Parks,
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Pioneer Photographers,
Yellowstone National Park Collection,
Album caption and index card: Zuni from housetops, looking east. McKinely County, New Mexico. n.d.
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
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Tags: Hillers, J.K. Collection,
McKinley County, New Mexico,
Pioneer Photographers,
photo print
Album caption: Great memorial valley on the Arkansas at the mouth of the La Plata. Colorado. No date. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1873 Series, page 58, No. 91, "Moraines on La Plata Creek. A grand display of great glacial power. Upon either side of the creek are two lateral moraines a half mile apart, three miles in length, and averaging 500 feet in height, as regular as if plowed up by Titans. The granite walls of the canyon above are ground and polished so smoothly as to glisten in the sunlight. Ages past a glacier filled this canyon five hundred to eight hundred feet in depth, and...
Elk Lake and Snowmass Mountain, shadow view. Pitkin County, Colorado. 1873. (Stereoscopic view)
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Types: Map Service,
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Tags: Four Great Surveys of the West,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
Pioneer Photographers,
Pitkin County, Colorado,
Stereo,
Album caption and index card: Gold mining in Borens Gluch. La Plata County, Colorado. 1875. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1875 Series, page 78, No.272: Gold-mining in Boren's Gulch. Note: 02/07/2017 - verfied with NARA Still Picture Branch that this photograph's orientation is correct.
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
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Tags: Four Great Surveys of the West,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
La Plata County, Colorado,
Mining,
Pioneer Photographers,
Album caption: The Powell-Ingalls Special Commission meeting with Southern Paiutes near St. George. Standing figure at far left is Major John Wesley Powell - note empty shirt sleeve. Washington County, Utah. September 1873. (Photo from Smithsonian Institution: BAE neg. no. 1662-A, Paiute). Notes on back of photo: Photo Credit, U. S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Photo File No. PIO-HIST 119. Index card: Hillers, J.K. 1039 - Various Indian tribes in conference with the U. S. Commission, near the Virgin River, a tributary of the Colorado River in southern Utah. Figure at extreme left is Major John Wesley Powell (note empty right sleeve). Utah, 1874. (Photo from Smithsonian Institution: BAE...
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
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Tags: Hillers, J.K. Collection,
John Wesley Powell Collection,
Pioneer Photographers,
photo print
Album caption: Mud Geyser, on the Yellowstone River, Hot Spring Series, Handwritten notes on album caption: 57-HS-97 USGS in National Archives. New no. 97. In action. 1871. This photo appears to have been retouched in the center of glass neg. to indicate the rise and fall of the geyser. Some other geyser photos have the retouching. Nellie C. Carico topog. div. June 14, 1972. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 29, No. 264: Mud Geyser in action. The only true mud geyser discovered, 8 miles below Yellowstone Lake. It has a funnel-shaped orifice in the center of a basin 150 feet...
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
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OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Expeditions,
Four Great Surveys of the West,
Hayden Survey,
Jackson, W.H. 1871 Series,
Jackson, W.H. Bound Album Collection,
Album caption: Craterlet and curled mud flakes, Ten Mile Hill. Charleston earthquake of August 31, 1886. Berkeley County, South Carolina. September 1886. (Photo by C. C. Jones) Published as plate 21 in U.S. Geological Survey. Annual report no. 9, 1887-1888. 1889. Index card unavailable.
Album caption and index card: Independence Rock. A noted landmark, on the Oregon Trail, for travelers at the time when this route was used. Its base, bordering the old road, is literally covered with names and dates, many of the former well known in the history of the west, and some of them antedating Fremont's time. The Sweetwater flows immediately along the southern end of it, although on the opposite side of the stream another ridge, continuing toward the southwest, was once connected with it. It is a vast and excellent illustration of disintegration, its rounded form resembling an oblong haystack, with layers of rock lapping over the top and sides of the mass. Thin layers have been broken off in part, and huge...
Categories: Image;
Types: Map Service,
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OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Expeditions,
Four Great Surveys of the West,
Hayden Survey,
Jackson, W.H. 1870 Series,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
Treasure Mountain in Elk Mountains, and view down the canyon of Rock Creek. Gunnison County, Colorado. 1873.
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Types: Map Service,
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OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Four Great Surveys of the West,
Gunnison County, Colorado,
Jackson, W.H. Collection,
Pioneer Photographers,
Rocks,
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