United States Geological Survey Party Photographic Collection, 1892-1912
P0116
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Scope and Content:
The USGS survey party photograph collection consists of eighteen gelatin printed out
photographs with cardboard mounts of E. W. Glafcke and his survey crew dating between 1898
and 1904. 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. The photographs were taken in the
Big Horn Mountains, the area around the Smiths Fork and Green Rivers, and the Uintah
Mountains which include Glafcke, A. L. Mitchell and Elt Waisner. These images show scenes of
the survey team including the surveyor's camp, men surveying, wagons, pack mules, and survey
equipment. The photographer is unknown.
Provenance:
Purchased from Amalgre Books in November 1996.
Register completed by Jacob Smith, April 2001.
Inventory:
Box 1.
01. image Three men relaxing at camp on Big Goose Creek in the Bighorn Mountains.
02. A.C. Mitchell, Mr. Thayer, E.W. Glafcke and Mr. Torons posing at camp on Big Goose
Creek in the Bighorn Mountains.
03. A.C. Mitchell and O. Palmer relaxing in a tent at camp; north end of Dome Lake in the
Bighorn Mountains, 1900.
04. A small herd of cattle grazing next to Dome Lake in the Bighorn Mountains, summer
cottages in the background.
05. E.W. Glafcke standing at Cold Rock Spring in the Bighorn Mountains, a man standing on
the side of a cliff above him.
06. E.W. Glafcke, Mr. Thayer and Mr. Towns at Goose Creek camp in the Bighorn
Mountains, wagon and tent in the background.
07. The L.H. Brooks Party on a wagon at Dome Lake in the Bighorn Mountains, summer
cottages in the background.
08. Elt Waisner playing a prank on unidentified man in camp at Smith's Fork of the Green
River in 1902.
08a. Two men in camp at Smith's Fork of the Green River, September 1898.
09. "Rocky Mountain Canary Birds, Ute Pass - Col, Unitah Mt." Donkeys with packs
traveling along the Ute Pass.
10. Two men standing at camp in the Utah Uintah Mountains, 1904.
11. image A heavily loaded supply wagon stuck in mud, a man tending to a horse behind it.
12. image A survey crew posing for a photo with their equipment.
13. image Two men playing a prank in camp, a man relaxes near a tent behind them.
14. Duplicate of #11.
15. Five men sitting atop a horse drawn supply wagon.
16. A camp scene with two men sitting in a tent, survey equipment dispersed about the camp.
17. A camp scene with man preparing food (?) from the back end of a wagon, man looking-on.
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