Image / Unidentified land surveyor at work near Turlock, California, circa 1905

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Title: Unidentified land surveyor at work near Turlock, California, circa 1905
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1905
Publication Information: California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: California State University, Stanislaus. Library
Collection: Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection
Rights Information: Unknown
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Description: An unidentified man appears to be reading a document presumably as part of his survey work. One of the main tasks of a surveyor is to measure the surface of the earth. This photo shows a transit attached to a tripod. The transit is used to measure both horizontal and vertical angles. The horse harnessed to the buggy appears to wait patiently. On the far side of the surveyor's horse is a white horse and behind it is a building under construction.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 12 x 17 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9q2nd47z
cturs_161
Language: English
Subject: Horse-drawn vehicles
Surveying--Instruments
Surveyors--California--Turlock
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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