Image / Round Top Coast and Geodetic Station, 10,700 feet. Alpine Co., Cal., 3390

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Title: Round Top Coast and Geodetic Station, 10,700 feet. Alpine Co., Cal., 3390
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 1879
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Stereo-4593.
Orange mount, pink back.
Shows men, instruments, building atop mountain.
Also have negative: no. 22,177 (4x5 in.)
One of a series of geodetic observatories established by George Davidson as part of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey’s project to measure latitude and longitude on the Pacific Coast. In 1879, temporary structures were erected on the summit of Round Top.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 stereograph card ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001552877CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey--Photographs
Surveyors--California--Alpine County
Mountains--California
Alpine County (Calif.)--Photographs
Round Top (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
Alpine County
Alpine County (Calif.)
Round Top (Calif.)

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