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NOAA Photo Library Image - cgs00498

Pappy Shelton, chief of the first geodimeter party, using Model 2A geodimeter. This instrument used a mercury vapor light source.

Image ID: cgs00498, NOAA's Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey (C&GS) Collection


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