E.T.T. (end of truck travel for the jeep and the beginning of a pack to a mountain peak.

Dos Cabezas Peaks

Sandia Mountains across the Rio Grande Valley

Pueblo Bonito

A lookout tower on Sandia Peak

Driver with rolled lightkeeper truck 707 somewhere in Arizona. Among the hazards of back country truck travel. This particular driver rolled a truck three times before being transferred to a less mobile CPS camp.

La Manga Pass, Colorado. GP with one of the camp mascots, the dog named DG. DG is the code for finishing observations at the end of a night's observations.

Packing to the Mount Taylor lookout tower

Messamer, Uhte, and Newcomer at Station Manzano.

Lovett and Huey packing to a station on Enchanted Mesa

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains from station Castilla.

Roy Barnhart packing into a station in the high country.

Brown horse and mule packing to a station somewhere in New Mexico

Breaking camp at Station Costilla and Ventrero

E.H.T. (end of horse travel) thence back pack to station

Sunset at Peach Springs with pack horses silhouetted.

Tent row at a base camp

Campground at Safford

A tent fire at a base camp

Mess tent fire

Barber Newcomer giving Creasdale a haircut

"Jack Time" or "We love milk at the open air mess in the shade at Farmington.

Jesse Moch at the cook tent.

Supper in the armory

J. J. Bachtel, an old time Coast and Geodetic Survey field man, who had served for many years in the Philippines.

The base camp in the snow at Santa Fe

Crew mascots D.G. and Poncho

Roy Barnhart at Willcox

Crew group photo - Messamer, Riggs, Huoy, Wolfe, Wiggins, Lovett, Wildman, Luloff, Newton, Shaw, Blanche, Marshall, Sternberg, N. G. McCoy, Cavitt, H. Pace, Hofmire, Brock, D. L. McCoy, Newcomer, and Bowman.

Itinerary of CPS-98 during its three years of existence. Such constant moving was typical of geodetic field crews from the 1920's through the 1980's.

Photos from other members of CPS-98 detailing the work of a geodetic triangulation party.

Photos from other members of CPS-98 detailing the work of a geodetic triangulation party.

Photos from other members of CPS-98 detailing the work of a geodetic triangulation party.

Photos from other members of CPS-98 detailing the work of a geodetic triangulation party.

Photos from other members of CPS-98 detailing the work of a geodetic triangulation party.

Photos from other members of CPS-98 detailing the work of a geodetic triangulation party.

Photos from other members of CPS-98 detailing the work of a geodetic triangulation party.

Photos from other members of CPS-98 detailing the work of a geodetic triangulation party.

Photos from retracing the work of CPS-98 taken fifty years after disbanding the crew.

Bob Green observing with Parkhurst 9-inch theodolite.

Bob Green reading A-micrometer on Parkhurst 9-inch theodolite.

Station South Base near Prescott. A heliotrope is on the four-foot observing stand.

Charlie Bowman using a collimator to locate the center of the tripod which will support the theodolite on a 20-foot observing stand.

The twenty-foot observing stand at Station Tijeras. Note the tower for supporting the theodolite built within the stand that will support the observers.

The tripod for supporting the theodolite at Station Tijeras. Once the tripod was built, construction of the 20-foot observing stand was begun.

The end of Weasel travel and the beginning of snowshoe travel on the trek to Station Manzano.

About halfway up Station Manzano. This was a "rough cookie." Bill Lilley and Bob Newcomer struggling through 3 feet of snow.

The way to the station on Enchanted Mesa looking from the bottom of the crevass.

One morning just before loading up. L to R - Bob Lovett, Eric Hammarstrom, Lou Probasco, L. Myers, Jack de Beers, Dean Luttle, Alan Adams.

Putting up the pole for electrical wiring at the camp at Peach Springs.