Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian photographs, 1871-1874.

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Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian photographs, 1871-1874.

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Stereograph photographs, probably collected by Lucius Fairchild, related to the Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 1871-1874, commanded by First Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, and published by the War Department Corps of Engineers. Expedition photographers Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell created the images which include depictions of Native American groups, and the landscape of the American southwest, such as the Grand Canyon, Arizona, and Canyon de Chelle, New Mexico.

108 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wheeler, George Montague, 1842-1905

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Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John Wheeler and Miriam P. Daniels. He graduated from West Point in 1866, ranked sixth in his class, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He first served in California from 1866 to 1871. In 1869 General Edward O. C. Ord sent him on a reconnaissance through the eastern Nevada. In 1872, the US Congress authorized an ambitious plan to map the portion of the United States west of the 100th meridian at a sc...