Historical Equipment - Land Surveyors United - Global Surveying Community2024-03-29T02:06:53Zhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/feed/category/Historical+Equipment1818 AMERICAN SURVEYOR BOOK Land SURVEYING Union Pacifichttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/1818-american-surveyor-book-land-surveying-union-pacific-57-32019-10-05T19:09:28.000Z2019-10-05T19:09:28.000Z⚡Survenator⌁https://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3647164757?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>1818 AMERICAN SURVEYOR BOOK Land SURVEYING Union Pacific</p></div>Antique Plumb Bob solid brass with steel tiphttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/antique-plumb-bob-solid-brass-with-steel-tip-572019-10-05T19:09:28.000Z2019-10-05T19:09:28.000Z⚡Survenator⌁https://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3647164767?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Antique Plumb Bob solid brass with steel tip</p></div>RARE No-7 Bostrom Brady Surveyor Transit 57https://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/rare-no-7-bostrom-brady-surveyor-transit-572019-10-05T19:09:27.000Z2019-10-05T19:09:27.000Z⚡Survenator⌁https://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3647164740?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>RARE No-7 Bostrom Brady Surveyor Transit 57</p></div>1818 AMERICAN SURVEYOR BOOK Land SURVEYING Union Pacifichttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/1818-american-surveyor-book-land-surveying-union-pacific-57-22019-10-05T19:09:27.000Z2019-10-05T19:09:27.000Z⚡Survenator⌁https://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3647164581?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>1818 AMERICAN SURVEYOR BOOK Land SURVEYING Union Pacific</p></div>1818 AMERICAN SURVEYOR BOOK Land SURVEYING Union Pacifichttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/1818-american-surveyor-book-land-surveying-union-pacific-572019-10-05T19:09:27.000Z2019-10-05T19:09:27.000Z⚡Survenator⌁https://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3647164752?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>1818 AMERICAN SURVEYOR BOOK Land SURVEYING Union Pacific</p></div>Surveying Company Ad Los Angelas 1930shttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/adcook12019-02-19T19:43:21.000Z2019-02-19T19:43:21.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1155392190?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Surveying Company Ad Los Angelas 1930s</p>
</div>1930s Chevrolet Advertisementhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/adchevy2019-02-19T19:43:21.000Z2019-02-19T19:43:21.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1155392192?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>1930s Chevrolet Advertisement featuring Land Surveyors</p>
</div>Surveyors and Ford Truck Ad 1960shttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/adfordtruck2019-02-19T19:43:21.000Z2019-02-19T19:43:21.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1155392147?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Ford Truck Ad 1960s featuring Surveyors</p>
</div>May his dream come truehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/may-his-dream-come-true2017-09-22T21:02:20.000Z2017-09-22T21:02:20.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385931?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div></div>calculatorhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/calculator2017-09-22T21:02:20.000Z2017-09-22T21:02:20.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385987?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=360"></div><div><p><span>Curta Mechanical Calculator, a small, hand-cranked mechanical calculator introduced by Curt Herzstark in 1948. It can be used to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and (with more difficulty) square roots and other operations. considered the best portable calculators available until they were displaced by electronic calculators in the 1970s.</span></p>
</div>Engineers survey an extensive tankhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/engineers-survey-an-extensive-tank2017-09-22T21:02:20.000Z2017-09-22T21:02:20.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385963?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div></div>A young man with a level on a tripod, circa 1890https://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/a-young-man-with-a-theodolite-on-a-tripod-circa-18902017-09-02T19:22:04.000Z2017-09-02T19:22:04.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385907?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=380"></div><div><p>A young man with a level on a tripod, circa 1890</p>
</div>greek roman gromahttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/greek-roman-groma2016-02-09T01:43:11.000Z2016-02-09T01:43:11.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385878?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div></div>Solar compasshttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/solar-compass-surveying2014-06-18T22:20:27.000Z2014-06-18T22:20:27.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385694?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=308"></div><div><p>In 1835 The solar compass was invented by William Austin Burt of Michigan. The solar compass is a compass with a specific purpose of determining "Latitude" and "True North". By making observations on the sun or other stars, the latitude of the location can first be determined and then "True North" can be determined. The solar compass also has the ability to measure horizontal angles much like a transit.</p>
</div>Diopter instrumenthttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/diopter-surveying-history2014-06-18T21:48:46.000Z2014-06-18T21:48:46.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385693?profile=RESIZE_180x180&width=150"></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" id="docs-internal-guid-29dcd950-b0ef-f6be-29e4-557de61501ff"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Around 120 B.C., Greeks developed the science of geometry and were using it for precise land division. Greeks developed the first piece of surveying equipment (Diopter). In a work entitled Diopter, Hero of Alexandria, describes it as a portable instrument, an application of the cogwheel, screw, and water level, for taking terrestrial and astronomical measurements. Because of some similarities, Hero's diopter is usually recognized as the ancestor of the modern theodolite.</span></p>
</div>James Ramsden Theodolite 1792https://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/james-ramsden-theodolite-17922014-06-18T21:48:45.000Z2014-06-18T21:48:45.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385685?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>This theodolite is the oldest surviving of its size and was used on the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain and Ireland from 1792 to the early 19th century. It was used to measure both vertical and horizontal angles to a high degree of accuracy. This helped to produce the network of reference points underpinning the Ordnance Survey maps of the United Kingdom.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" id="docs-internal-guid-29dcd950-b0ed-cd14-bd1d-4673f14cc753">The <strong>Jesse Ramsden theodolite</strong> is a large theodolite which was specially constructed for use in the first Ordnance Survey of Southern Britain in 1787. In 1791 Ramsden's theodolite with a 3 ft. circle reading to 1" built was used for the angle observations and despite its weight of about 300 lbs. good progress was obtained in the triangulation. It is certainly among the 4 or 5 greatest technological advances ever in geodetic surveying. In the field of general surveying however, the invention by the French of the repeating theodolite about 1790 is of equal importance for it is the basis for the instrument most surveyors have employed</span></p>
</div>Egyptian Surveying Instrumentshttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/egyptian-surveying-history2014-06-18T21:26:22.000Z2014-06-18T21:26:22.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385730?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" id="docs-internal-guid-29dcd950-b0dd-9a1c-952e-064ce473a4e1"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Surveying is believed to be the third oldest profession in the world. To a surveyors, the link chain symbolizes a rugged era, in terms of evolution of surveying technology and equipments. The chain was a precision part of a surveyor's equipment for years. Then the Renaissance in education and scientific knowledge provided the necessary intellectual foundation for the development of modern surveying.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With the advent of the electronic distance meter, GPS, GIS, and computer-controlled Land Surveying, the profession of surveyors has turned from a labor-intensive type into a more sedate one.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A brief chronology of surveying instruments provided here, traces the history of surveying:</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Around 1400 B.C., the Egyptians first used the predecessors of modern surveying instruments to accurately divide land into plots for the purpose of taxation and to engineer many feats, from canals to pyramids. An ancient Egyptian survey crew used measuring ropes, plumb bobs, sighting instruments, and leveling instruments. The ancient Egyptian measuring rope was stretched taut between stakes and then rubbed with a mixture of beeswax and resin. Some of the ropes depicted in hieroglyph were graduated by knots tied at intervals.</span></p>
</div>Magnetic Compass in surveying historyhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/chinacompass-magnetic-compass-surveying-history2014-06-18T21:26:21.000Z2014-06-18T21:26:21.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385721?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=300"></div><div><p><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" id="docs-internal-guid-29dcd950-b0dc-23bb-17e1-13a2682749a8">The magnetic compass is an old Chinese invention, probably first made in China during the Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.) Lodestones (a mineral composed of an iron oxide which aligns itself in a north-south direction) turned out to be better at pointing out real directions, leading to the first compasses. They designed the compass on a square slab which had markings for the cardinal points and the constellations. The pointing needle was a lodestone spoon-shaped device, with a handle that would always point south. Magnetized needles used as direction pointers instead of the spoon-shaped lodestones appeared in the 8th century AD, again in China, and between 850 and 1050 they seem to have become common as navigational devices on ships.</span></p>
</div>Sextant instrument surveying historyhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/sextant-instrument-surveying-history2014-06-18T21:26:20.000Z2014-06-18T21:26:20.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385719?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=250"></div><div><p><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" id="docs-internal-guid-29dcd950-b0db-2aed-3820-e1287143238a">Two men independently rediscovered the sextant around 1730: John Hadley (1682-1744), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey (1704-1749), an American inventor. A sextant is a navigation instrument used for measuring angles, primarily altitudes of celestial bodies. Originally, the sextant had an arc of 60°, or 1/6 of a circle, from which the instrument derived its name. Because of the double-reflecting principle used, such an instrument could measure angles as large as 120°. The image shown is of an early sextant by John Bird which was invented in 1759. The frame is mahogany with an ivory scale. It is so large and heavy that it needed a support that fitted into a socket on the observers belt.</span></p>
</div>8 inch transit for triangulationhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/8-inch-transit-triangulation2014-03-11T17:13:16.000Z2014-03-11T17:13:16.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385666?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=341"></div><div><p>Read All about this transit <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qJgIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=8+inch+transit+for+triangulation&source=bl&ots=waHDOvxjAV&sig=gYSymuCpsgyE_-tpp2ypU2KGJgc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Nz0fU-LmAoXskQf0jIDQCA&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=8%20inch%20transit%20for%20triangulation&f=false" target="_blank">here</a><iframe width="500" height="500" style="border: 0px;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://books.google.com/books?id=qJgIAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA123&ots=waHDOvxjAV&dq=8%20inch%20transit%20for%20triangulation&pg=PA123&output=embed"></iframe></p>
</div>antique plumb bobshttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/antique-plumbbobs2014-03-11T17:13:16.000Z2014-03-11T17:13:16.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385669?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=369"></div><div><p>The <strong>plumb bob</strong> is one of the oldest tools in the world. The Egyptians used them for building. The key in a building construction is keeping things square to the ground. Perfectly horizontal or vertical as the case may be. The key to the plumb bob is that the point at the end of the bob is directly in line with the string. For example, when building a brick wall, one mounts the plumb bob above the area being bricked so that the point is over a reference point on the ground. This gives the bricklayer a perfect, taut, vertical string to guarantee that the wall of bricks will be all the same distance from the string and hence be vertically straight. On a construction site, taut strings are routinely used as references and are even chalked and snapped against a surface to leave an accurate line. For the last two centuries or so, plumb bobs have been typically made of brass or bronze with a steel tip. The top screws off so that the string can be run through a hole in the center of the top ensuring that the string is aligned with the tip.</p>
<p>A <b>plumb-bob</b> or a <b>plummet</b> is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, that is suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line, or <b>plumb-line</b>. It is essentially the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-axis" title="Y-axis" class="mw-redirect">y-axis</a>equivalent of a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_level" title="Spirit level">water level</a>".</p>
<p data-meaningful="true" ct-id="2">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_instrument" title="Measuring instrument">instrument</a> has been used since at least the time of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">ancient Egypt</a><sup id="cite_ref-Stocks2003_1-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumb_bob#cite_note-Stocks2003-1">[1]</a></sup> to ensure that constructions are "<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plumb" class="extiw" title="wikt:plumb">plumb</a>", or vertical. It is also used in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying" title="Surveying">surveying</a> to establish the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir" title="Nadir">nadir</a> with respect to gravity of a point in space. They are used with a variety of instruments (including levels, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodolite" title="Theodolite">theodolites</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_measure" title="Tape measure">steel tapes</a>) to set the instrument exactly over a fixed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_marker" title="Survey marker">survey marker</a>, or to transcribe positions onto the ground for placing a marker.<sup id="cite_ref-Brinker1995_2-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumb_bob#cite_note-Brinker1995-2">[2]</a>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumb_bob" target="_blank">Source</a>]</sup></p>
</div>altazimuth instrument surveyinghttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/altazimuth-instrument-surveying2014-03-11T17:13:16.000Z2014-03-11T17:13:16.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385671?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=345"></div><div><p><iframe width="500" height="500" style="border: 0px;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://books.google.com/books?id=jPVxSDzVRP0C&lpg=PA262&ots=n5hSbwiAln&dq=altazimuth%20instrument%20surveying&pg=PA262&output=embed"></iframe></p>
</div>antique surveyor chainshttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/antique-surveyor-chains2014-03-11T17:13:15.000Z2014-03-11T17:13:15.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385659?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=363"></div><div><p><b>Land Surveyor's Chain</b><span> - The ordinary Gunter's or surveyor's chain is sixty</span><span>-six feet or four </span><span>poles long, and is composed of </span><dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers">one hundred links</dfn><span>, connected each to each by </span><dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers">two rings</dfn><span>, and furnished with a tally mark at the end of every </span><dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers">ten links</dfn><span>.  A link in measurement includes a ring at each end, and is </span><dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers">seven and ninety two </dfn><dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers">one hundredths inches long</dfn><span>.  In all the chains which we make the rings are oval and are sawed and well closed, the ends of the wore forming the hook being also filed and bent close to the link, to avoid kinking.  The oval rings are about </span><dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers">one third stronger than </dfn><span>round ones.  [<a href="http://www.surveyhistory.org/surveyor's_chain.htm" target="_blank">Source</a>]</span></p>
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</div>astronomical transit instrument used in surveyinghttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/astronomical-transit-instrument-surveying2014-03-11T17:13:15.000Z2014-03-11T17:13:15.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385661?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Read All about this transit <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qJgIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=8+inch+transit+for+triangulation&source=bl&ots=waHDOvxjAV&sig=gYSymuCpsgyE_-tpp2ypU2KGJgc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Nz0fU-LmAoXskQf0jIDQCA&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=8%20inch%20transit%20for%20triangulation&f=false" target="_blank">here</a></p>
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</div>Practical Surveying Manual by Zacariah Fess 1799https://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/practical-surveying-manual-17992014-03-10T00:43:15.000Z2014-03-10T00:43:15.000ZJustin Farrowhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/justin<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385716?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/bDmjSM9kXXalOGsndJ-p9j2KCvyRovfgA3s38T5crpcHMfdAoLFBk-BmuWxVZkS*xq05LWBa3KdPwparNJvzofUNwyWPWbDe/practicalsurveying1799bookTOC.JPG"><img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/bDmjSM9kXXalOGsndJ-p9j2KCvyRovfgA3s38T5crpcHMfdAoLFBk-BmuWxVZkS*xq05LWBa3KdPwparNJvzofUNwyWPWbDe/practicalsurveying1799bookTOC.JPG?width=750" width="750" /></a><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/bDmjSM9kXXYtHCrC*9syqffFIk1nUZVVT7olusdSSsb8WONh-TSNqyyoIbBxWZx6BSaMDgOArtHDBHgLlONIcZU9iQTShKM5/surveying1799bookZacariahFess.JPG"><img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/bDmjSM9kXXYtHCrC*9syqffFIk1nUZVVT7olusdSSsb8WONh-TSNqyyoIbBxWZx6BSaMDgOArtHDBHgLlONIcZU9iQTShKM5/surveying1799bookZacariahFess.JPG?width=750" width="750" /></a><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/bDmjSM9kXXYNqqjED9KjvU8N6BY9CeTtbxNKeFZ*RFJ10PxmI*P2sd1mIax6T8tzlwq7eYP3egMOyAxYRXx-UyJNrjXmmERp/surveying1799book.JPG"><img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/bDmjSM9kXXYNqqjED9KjvU8N6BY9CeTtbxNKeFZ*RFJ10PxmI*P2sd1mIax6T8tzlwq7eYP3egMOyAxYRXx-UyJNrjXmmERp/surveying1799book.JPG?width=750" width="750" /></a></p>
</div>Surveyor Overton Bernard of Florida 1885https://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/surveyor-overton-bernard2013-11-16T02:37:07.000Z2013-11-16T02:37:07.000ZEl Surveyorhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/ElSurveyor<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385612?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Florida faces. Surveyor Overton Bernard photographed between 1885 and 1903 in Tallahassee.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://oldflorida.tumblr.com/post/10769808491/florida-faces-surveyor-overton-bernard" target="_blank">Source Old Florida Blog</a>]</p>
</div>Deadwood Central Railroad Engineer Corps. 1888https://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/deadwood-central-surveyors-18882013-11-16T02:37:07.000Z2013-11-16T02:37:07.000ZEl Surveyorhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/ElSurveyor<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385616?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; display: block; clear: both; color: #525252; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Deadwood Central Railroad Engineer Corps, showing a group of Surveyors. It was created in 1888 by Grabill, John C. H.,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; display: block; clear: both; color: #525252; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>[<a href="http://indypendenthistory.tumblr.com/post/47460085939/deadwood-central-railroad-engineer-corps-showing" target="_blank">Source</a>]</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; display: block; clear: both; color: #525252; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">(via<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.old-picture.com/old-west/Surveyors-Railroad.htm#.UWLgq8zPxqE.tumblr" style="color: #0099cb; text-decoration: none; max-width: 680px;">Railroad Surveyors</a>)</p>
</div>Land Surveyors from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 1930shttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/chesapeake-surveyors-history-ohio-railway2013-11-16T02:37:07.000Z2013-11-16T02:37:07.000ZEl Surveyorhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/ElSurveyor<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385634?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p style="color: #202020; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.390625px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">We don’t know many details about this image from our Westmoreland Coal Company Collection. We did find it interesting for the man standing in the back row with his unconventional pet.</p>
<p style="color: #202020; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.390625px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">[<a href="http://hagleyvault.org/post/14811289391/surveyors-from-the-chesapeake-and-ohio-railway" target="_blank">Source</a>]</p>
<p style="color: #202020; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.390625px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><a href="http://digital.hagley.org/u?/p268001coll4,9650" target="_blank" style="color: #0f6f9f; text-decoration: none;">View the image in the Hagley Digital Archives</a></p>
</div>Charles Von Blucher Surveying Collection 1876https://landsurveyorsunited.com/hubs/surveying-history/photos/charles-von-blucher-18762013-10-25T01:29:21.000Z2013-10-25T01:29:21.000ZEl Surveyorhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/ElSurveyor<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6385595?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span><strong><a title="Conrad Blucher Surveying Collection" href="http://rattler.tamucc.edu/dept/special/blutcherc.html" target="_blank">Conrad Blucher Surveying Collection</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span>The Conrad Blucher Surveying Collection (CBSC) represents a major research and educational resource at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Assembled by three generations of Nueces County surveyors belonging to the historic Blucher family, the CBSC contains a voluminous number of surveying documents covering over a century of South Texas development (1840s-1950s.)</span></p>
<p><span>The CBSC represents the work of Felix A. von Blucher, his son Charles F.H. von Blucher, and grandson Conrad M. Blucher.<br /></span></p>
<p><span>A German immigrant to Corpus Christi in the 1840s, Felix Blucher served as Nueces County’s first elected County Surveyor. After he died in the 1870s, Felix was replaced by his son Charles, who served until 1933, when he relinquished the position to his son Conrad. Over the years, these three professionals generated over four hundred survey field books and either created or accumulated thousand of maps, making the CBSC a monumental record of private land ownership in South Texas. These materials are accessible through an extensive four volume set of indexes compiled by the Blucher Engineering Company before Conrad Blucher retired in 1953. These indexes are in alphabetical order according to clients’ names. The CBSC covers such South Texas counties as Nueces, San Patricio, Kleberg, Jim Wells, Brooks, Duval, Willacy, Kenedy, and others.</span></p>
<p><span>The CBSC was donated to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi by the Blucher family. It was housed at the Nueces County Surveyor’s office where it was utilized and maintained by County Surveyor William W. Green, Conrad Blucher’s protégé, until he retired in 1994. In that year, the entire collection was transferred to the University where it is now part of the non-circulating holdings of Special Collections & Archives of the Bell Library. A treasure of South Texas surveying, the CBSC especially enhances the University’s Geographic Information Science Program, as well as serves the needs of the larger community.</span></p>
<p><span>We invite questions and/or comments and look forward to hearing from you. Contact Dr. Thomas H. Kreneck at<a href="mailto:Thomas.Kreneck@tamucc.edu">Thomas.Kreneck@tamucc.edu</a>, 361-825-2301.</span></p>
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