Preliminary Guide to the Utah Topographical Sketchbooks
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Preliminary Guide to the Utah Topographical Sketchbooks, 1877, 1879, 1883
Collection number: Wyles Mss 32
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 25 September 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Utah Topographical Sketchbooks,
Date (inclusive): 1877, 1879, 1883
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 32
Collector:
Fisher (Richard V.)
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Utah Topographical Sketchbooks. Wyles Mss 32. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Gift of Richard V. Fisher, 1972.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains three bound Utah topographical sketchbooks, with faint pencil drawings, by three separate topographers,
1877, 1879, 1883. The first two have labels indicating "Engineer Department, U.S. Army, Geographical Surveys West of 100th
Meridian," while the third indicates "Northern Transcontinental Survey."
These sketchbooks accompanied a larger collection of books on geology donated by Richard V. Fisher.
Box 1: 1
1877 - Book No. 3, Topographical Records, 1877
Abstract: [Party No. 2, Utah Section, South Promontory Peak to Drainage Station near Bannock Peak. J. W. Ward, Topographer; Lieut.
R. Birnie in charge of party. Engineer Department, U.S. Army, Geographical Surveys West of 100th Meridian]
Box 1: 2
1879 - Book No. 423, Topographical Records, 1879
Abstract: [Party No. Special Great Fall Lakes, Lakeside to Little Mountain. Francis Klett, Topographer; Lieut. W. Young in charge of
party. Engineer Department, U.S. Army, Geographical Surveys West of 100th Meridian]
Box 1: 3
1883 - Book No. 2, Sta[tion] 66 to 164, 1883
Abstract: [A. D. Wilson, Chief Topographer, Newport, R.I. Northern Transcontinental Survey]