Collection of U.S.G.S. 15-minute series topographical maps, [dates].

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Collection of U.S.G.S. 15-minute series topographical maps, [dates].

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A portfolio of early U.S.G.S. 15-minute quadrangles, primarily collected by Pierre S. du Pont for his personal use, plus additional sheets subsequently acquired as gifts. Coverage includes: all of Maryland, the District of Columbia and New Jersey; most of Delaware; the New York City area and the Hudson-Mohawk River Valley as far as Utica, plus the Catskills, Adirondacks and Lake Champlain and the middle Genesee Valley; the area of the Berkshires in northern Connecticut, western Massachusetts and southern Vermont; northeastern West Virginia; southeastern Pennsylvania lying south and east of the Susquehanna River, with a strip running west along the U.S. Route 30 corridor to Pittsburgh; and the Fredericksburg and Yorktown-Norfolk areas in Virginia. There are also isolated maps of the areas including Little Rock, Ark., and Nashville, Tenn.

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E.W. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological Survey's spirit leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912. From the guide to the United States Geologic Survey photograph collection, 1892-1912, 1898-1902, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) First organized as a branch in 1889, the Topographic Division was established in 1947. From the description of Records of the Topographic Division. (Unknown). World...