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Photographic Diary of Coast & Geodetic Survey Member by Coast & Geodetic Survey
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Book desription: Unpublished material: 1907-1912 An Album of 306 original high-resolution photographs, all silver gelatin prints or cyanoprints, generously captioned by the author, a member of Coast & Geodetic Survey, mapping depth and location as well as towns and harbors for navigational charts. Paper boards, cloth spine (25.4cm x21cm). The Coast & Geodetic Survey oversaw the maintenance of the coastlines and connecting waterways of the Great Lakes. From 1907 - 1912, the author, believed to be a Mr. Horen, aboard the vessel SEARCH, maintained this photographic diary of his activities. Photographs of the ships (including the first ocean-going tugboat in the Great Lakes), lighthouses, and personnel, as well as memorable side-trips, such as a visit to the International Chicago Air Meet of 1911 (commemorated in eight photographs, one showing Lincoln Beachey breaking the world's altitude record). The dry-cut construction of the Livingston Channel used by down-bound vessels in the lower Detroit River is recorded with six photographs recording the technology as well as the inspection party of Survey Engineers and Engravers. The Wind Point Light complex and its personnel, the Racine Reef Light, the Milwaukee Light, and small places of nautical interest like Naubinway were all included on the survey expedition's itinerary. The Frank Lloyd Wright house built for Thomas P. Hardy overlooking the lake at Racine is recorded in two images. The homes of Robert Todd Lincoln and the celebrated evangelist Alexander Dowie, as well as Gertrude House, Dowie's Invaders of Zion City Methodist Church, and some images of the campus of Northwestern University. The skylines of Milwaukee and Chicago were captured in panoramic shots taken from the lake. City views of Detroit, Chicago, Racine, Milwaukee, and Cleveland are also of content interest. The general informational value of most of the photographs in this album (306 in all) is high. Of this number some 65 photographs are documents of very significant historical value, as they record events, buildings, and the growth of the cities along the waterways of the Great Lakes during the first two decades of the twentieth century. The captions are all in ink. The condition of the photographs is fine. Only one photograph has a slight tear because it was mounted to close to the edge of the page. The condition of the pages on which the photographs are mounted is poor. It is brittle and chipping along the edges. The first two blank pages are loose as are the first two pages of the pages on which the photographs are mounted.
- Bookseller: G. Gosen Rare Books & Old Paper
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- Bookseller Inventory #: CGS020809
- Quantity available: 1
- Publisher: Unpublished material: 1907-1912
- Keywords: Lincoln Beachey, Livingston Channel, Anson M. Bangs, Thomas P. Hardy House, Wind Point Light
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