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 "Press representatives accompanying excursion party to a point on 100th meridian--275 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska [Terr.]." By John Crbutt for the Union Pacific Railroad, October 24, 1866. [216kb Image from US National Archives]
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 First camp of the John Wesley Powell expedition, in the willows, Green River, Wyo. Terr. By E. 0. Beaman, 1871. [254kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Climbing Pike's Peak, Colorado, in winter, rounding Windy Point, ca. 1890. [139kb Image from US National Archives]
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 The U.S. Geological and Geophysical Survey of the Territories, conducted by Hayden, en route with pack train upon the trail between the Yellowstone and East Fork Rivers "showing the manner in which all parties traverse these wilds." Wyo. Terr. By Jackson, 1871. [280kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Noon camp of a surveying outfit, southwest part of Jornada Range Reserve, New Mexico, October 17, 1912. [166kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Discovery party and horses on hot, slick rocks west of Navajo Mountain on their way to Rainbow Bridge, Utah. By Neil M. Judd, August 13, 1909. [185kb Image from US National Archives]
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 John K. Hillers at work with his negatives. In camp, Aquarius Plateau, Utah Terr. Hillers was a photographer with the John Wesley Powell Geological Survey. By Hillers, ca. 1872. [283kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Timothy O'Sullivan's ambulance wagon and portable darkroom used during the King Survey rolls across the sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev. By O'Sullivan, 1867. [130kb Image from US National Archives]
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 A noon meal in Ferdinand V. Hayden's camp of the U. & Geological Survey. Red Buttes, Wyo. Terr., August 24, 1870. Hayden sits at far end of table in dark jacket; W. H. Jackson stands at far right. By Jackson. [263kb Image from US National Archives]
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 A member of Clarence King's Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel is surveying from a rock. Shoshone Canyon and Falls, Idaho Terr., in background. By O'Sullivan, 1868. [243kb Image from US National Archives]
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 An overland caravan laden with boats. Robert B. Stanton's Denver, Colorado Canyon, and Pacific Railway Survey, 1889-90. [268kb Image from US National Archives]
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