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[Three men standing in front of log cabin at camp for U.S. Geological Survey team, Rocky Mountains] / W.H. Jackson photo.

Library of Congress · 1872 · William Henry Jackson

Three small figures stand at a low log cabin in dense standing timber, the print laid on a mount headed in ornate type 'U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories'.
From the archive · Library of Congress · 1872 [Three men standing in front of log cabin at camp for U.S. Geological Survey team, Rocky Mountains] / W.H. Jackson photo. William Henry Jackson

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-63404 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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A survey camp in the Rockies, on the Hayden Survey's own printed mount -- 'Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, Prof. F.V. Hayden in charge'. The letterhead is part of the object.

Shows: Where the people who made the first systematic western records actually lived while they made them.

What this does not let you conclude: Which camp this is, or what was measured from it. The mount names the survey; it does not name the place. The Library gives circa 1872.

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