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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Probably Native Americans receiving instructions on compass use for Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a group of Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory workers. John Bordner is in the center of the top row. Stanta Bordner is beside him. Uppe... |
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| Description: | Person's hands, one with with wedding ring on left hand, using a ruler, pencil, and protractor to draw a land cover map for Wisconsin Land Economic Invento... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A class of engineering students practicing surveying in front of Science Hall, located on the University of Wisconsin (Madison) campus. Eleven engineering ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 04 23 1937 |
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| Description: | Sand barrens being used for poor crops. Note on back of print reads: "This should be in timber." |
| Date: | 07 01 1871 |
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| Description: | Railroad surveying party in camp somewhere north of Green Bay. The men were surveyors for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad extension. |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | From back of print: "Dane County, Town of Middleton, north 1/2 section of section 17 looking SW from a hill across the valley showing erosion and stump pas... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | "Surveying Crew on McArthur Rd. Sunny Brae farm is in background." |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A segment of the trunk of a pine bears the scars of a "blaze" carved with an ax and bearing the inscription: "XIX T. J. Cram, D. Houghton Aug 11, 1841." C... |
| Date: | 07 14 1958 |
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| Description: | This is a Tellurometer, a microwave surveying instrument. The operator is Don Reed, field man for Alster and Associates, Washington, D.C., which completed ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Five men surveying land across a road. They're standing near a barbed wire fence. |
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| Description: | Map, "Township No. 22 North, of Range No. 5 West of (?)," surveyed in 1846 and 1853. |
| Date: | 03 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Map of areas surveyed by block number as part of the Madison Housing Authority Survey of Substandard Housing. |
| Date: | 03 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Map of locations by block of dwellings rated as blighted as part of the Madison Housing Authority Survey of Substandard Housing. |
| Date: | 03 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Map of locations of blocks of dwellings rated as slums, as part of the Madison Housing Authority Survey of Substandard Housing. |
| Date: | 03 09 1955 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat looks through the eye piece of his surveying instrument, called a 'theodolite,' which rests on a tripod. |
| Date: | 02 02 1960 |
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| Description: | The Madison Redevelopment Authority joined in the city's program of locating and permanently marking land survey corners in the Madison area. Here they mar... |
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