Maintenance area for speeders used in leveling operations.

Recorder sitting while working with tabulating machine; umbrella man shading leveling instrument; and rodman holding rod vertical over turning point. Picture shows how line sight clears recorder with inclined tripod. Party of J.D. Crichton.

Level crew posing with speeders in foreground. Harry Siple on right. Party of J. D. Crichton

Level crew placing speeder on tracks preparing to head to day's work. Note palm tree indicating general location of crew.

Level crew stopping for group photo at train station.

Level crew with party chief operating instrument.

Level operations at an industrial facility.

Level operations along the coast north of Los Angeles.

Station master with H.M Sippel's baggage. Apparently a homophone of Harry Siple.

Crossing a trestle during leveling operations. A dangerous proposition as there was no place to put the speeders if an unexpected train happened by.

Four speeders in a row - outfit of a double-level crew.

Working along the Southern Pacific Railroad. Rodman at benchmark. Observing crew even with engine on right. Velocipede removed from tracks. Level party of C. A. Egner

J. R. Crichton observing with side-mounted level instrument from railroad velocipede.

J. R. Crichton observing with side-mounted level instrument from railroad

Center mounted level instrument on velocipede with rodman velocipede and stowed level rods to the right.

Crew of the USC&GS TULIP working in the Philippine Islands just prior to turning over all functions to the Philippine Coast and Geodetic Survey.

A meeting of the U.S.-Philippines Rehabilitation Agencies Council. 2nd from left, Commander Charles Pierce, USC&GS; third from right, A. C. Peterson, United States Weather Bureau.

USC&GS ship TULIP (WAGL 249) anchored on working grounds in Subic Bay

Ensign Filomeno L. Corton conducting plane table topography

Philippine Coast and Geodetic Survey officers attached to the USC&GS ship TULIP

The large drafting table on the boat deck of the USC&GS ship TULIP.

Ensign Calixto S. Rozal conducting plane table topography.

Philippine Coast and Geodetic Survey officers and trainees attached to USC&GS ship TULIP

Philippine Coast and Geodetic Survey officers attached to USC&GS Ship TULIP

Petty officers of the USC&GS Ship EXPLORER

The beach at Mumtrakamut

The tide observers at Goodnews Bay with a ptarmigan dinner.

Some officers and crew of the USC&GS Ship EXPLORER at Mumtrakamut. L-R -- Lovlee, Robinson, Sjender, I. Nelson, Moen, Babcock, C. Nelson, McMillan, Surgeon Sommer.

Chief writer (yeoman) Ohlsen at the store-house at Goodnews Bay.

Recruits enroute to Goodnews Bay and the EXPLORER

Some of EXPLORER's crew with a string of ptarmigan at a shore camp.

Barat Ohlsen, Chief Engineer of the USC&GS Ship YUKON with large bearskin.

Surgeon Sommer with Alaskan pups

Lowering a launch on the EXPLORER

Improvised platform and sounding trolley platform on the Steamer EXPLORER

The tide observers' tent at Goodnews Bay

A native American village at Kings Cove

Native food caches at Mumtrakamut

In a reference to the horrendous western Alaska weather, this is captioned: Mumtrakamut natives sunning themselves. L-r -- Lovlee, Freeman, Allison, Dr. Sommer, I. Nelson, Reynolds.

Mumtrakamut natives and Reynolds, Seymour, and Nelson of the Steamer EXPLORER at head of Goodnews Bay.

Native woman cooking at Mumtrakamut.

Coal sacks deposited at Goodnews Bay by the Steamer YUKON for the Steamer EXPLORER

The coal barge at Goodnews Bay

The coal barge at Goodnews Bay

Prospector Freemann's sodhouse and Dr. Sommer at Goodnews Bay.

Mumtrakamut natives outside their sod home.

Vasiliev, the reindeer herder's hut at Goodnews Bay

Prospector Stapelfeldt's hut near the Beluga Mountains at Goodnews Bay.

Crewmembers from EXPLORER trying out native kayaks.

Lukens, Cotton, Allison, and Ivor Nelson enjoying "launch lunch" above Mumtrakamut.