Bloomberg and Robert A. Studds dressed up in tropical finery. Touring Sandakan, Borneo on rented bicycles

The U.S.S. SHERMAN. An Army transport used by Coast Surveyors coming to the Philippines.

Signal-building crew on way to mountain peak. Hoping nothing bites their legs. Off the PATHFINDER

The road through the Luzon highlands.

Ox-power transporting equipment to station site.

Nearly impenetrable trees and vines confronted Coast Surveyors in many areas.

Going to Bosque - if it wasn't trees and vines, it was head-high sawgrass.

Riding the rickshaws at Shanghai on the way out to the Philippines. Future Rear Admiral and Mrs. Paul A. Smith

A primitive ferry boat in the Southern Philippines.

A little less primitive ferry boat in the Southern Philippines.

Plane table survey in the water. Look out for the crocs!!!!

Sometimes these would catch the humans instead of vice versa. Huge salt-water crocodile on display in Sandakan, Borneo

An idyllic South Philippines village.

Sketch of a Coast Survey camp site.

A colorful native boat.

A Manabo tribe boy.

The sultan's palace at Mambaing, Jolo. Before the typhoon

The sultan's palace at Maimbung, Jolo. After the typhoon

Rhino hunting in Borneo. Off the MARINDUQUE

The church built in 1621 at Morona.

The infamous Bilibid Prison. Some Coast Surveyors were incarcerated here by the Japanese in WWII

Marching the prisoners at Bilibid Prison. Some Coast Surveyors were incarcerated here by the Japanese in WWII

A small Chinese junk.

Native children riding water buffalo.

Native homes at Bojelebung.

A grass thatch hut.

Taking in the glories of nature. Picnic and swim at a Palawan waterfall

An eruption of Mayan Volcano.

A coastal lagoon.

Time for a little fun. Climbing a mushroom coral rock. FATHOMER in background offshore

Carl I. Aslakson Nationalist China Passport.

Roswell Bolstad. On the LYDONIA

Philip C. Doran. Observing with 10" Bausch theodolite in central Alaska

Herbert Grove Dorsey. Inventor of fathometer and first chief of C&GS radiosonic laboratory

Roland D. Horne.

Boatswain John Janke. Casting the lead on the WILDCAT

H. Arnold Karo. Director of Coast and Geodetic Survey 1955-1965. Deputy Administrator of ESSA with rank of Vice-Admiral 1965-1966. After retirement as expedition director of OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise

Ford Kurtz - an aid. At home in a modified boxcar CB and O #25094. Life on a level crew

Ector B. Latham. Getting a bite to eat on the way to Station Armada

Ector B. Latham on right. Starting out on the pack to Armada

Herman Odessey. On the right eating breakfast a la carte

Herman Odessey (l) and Walter J. Bilby (r). Triangulation work in Montana. A two-man observing party heading to a station

Hubert Paton. Taking a sun sight on the LYDONIA

Ralph Pfau (l). Early morning computing of previous night's astronomic observations

Ernst Stohsner. With blue fox on Amlia Island. Shore camp off of PIONEER

Almon M. Vincent. Chief Electronics Technician on the GUIDE. Invented radio sono-buoy

Sam White. At Station Portage with party of William M. Scaife. Sam White became one of the top bush pilots in Alaska in the 1940's and 1950's

Sam White. Conducting reconnaissance on the Yukon River. Sam White became one of the top bush pilots in Alaska in the 1940's and 1950's

Cartoon by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . Alexander served on the Survey for close to 40 years. This was his view of work on island off the coast of Maine.

Cartoon by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . Alexander was dreaming of getting rich on railroad stocks.