Descriptive Summary
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-8248
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
UUS_P0116
Geological Survey (U.S.)
United States Geologic Survey photograph collection
1892-1912
1898-1902
1 box; 18 items
.5 linear ft.
Images of E. W. Glafcke and his United States
Geological Survey crew, which included Glafcke, A.L. Mitchell, and Elt Waisner. Included
are images of the surveyor's camp, men surveying, wagons, pack mules, survey equipment,
and Dome Lake in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. The photographer is unknown.
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the United States Geologic Survey photograph collection must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
United States Geologic Survey photograph collection, 1892-1912. (P0116). Utah State
University. Special Collections & Archives Department.
Purchased from Amalgre Books in November 1996.
Register completed by Jacob Smith, April 2001.
Biographical Note
E.W. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological Survey's spirit
leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912.
Organized numerical by photo number.
The USGS survey party photograph collection consists of eighteen gelatin printed out
photographs with cardboard mounts of E. W. Glafcke and his survey crew dating between
1898 and 1904. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological
Survey's spirit leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912. The
photographs were taken in the Big Horn Mountains, the area around the Smiths Fork and
Green Rivers, and the Uintah Mountains which include Glafcke, A. L. Mitchell and Elt
Waisner. These images show scenes of the survey team including the surveyor's camp, men
surveying, wagons, pack mules, and survey equipment. The photographer is unknown.
Images
Glafcke, E. W.
Glafcke, E.
W.--Portraits.
Mitchell,
Albert--Portraits.
Waisner,
Elt--Portraits.
Geological
and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)--Photographs.
Geographical
Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Photographs.
Geological surveys--West
(U.S.)--Photographs.
Surveying--West
(U.S.)--Photographs.
Scientific expeditions--West
(U.S.)--Photographs.
Surveyors--Utah--Portraits.
Surveying--Utah--Photographs.
Leveling--Utah--Photographs.
Surveyors--Wyoming--Portraits.
Surveying--Wyoming--Photographs.
Leveling--Wyoming--Photographs.
Bighorn
Mountains (Wyo. and Mont.)--Photographs.
Dome Lake
(Wyo.)--Photographs.
Expeditions & surveys--West
(U.S.)--1898-1902.
Container List
1
01
Three men relaxing at camp on Big Goose Creek in the Bighorn
Mountains.
undated
1
02
A.C. Mitchell, Mr. Thayer, E.W. Glafcke and Mr.
Torons posing at camp on Big Goose Creek in the Bighorn Mountains
undated
1
03
A.C. Mitchell and O. Palmer relaxing in a tent at
camp; north end of Dome Lake in the Bighorn Mountains,
1900
1
04
A small herd of cattle grazing next to Dome Lake in
the Bighorn Mountains, summer cottages in the background
undated
1
05
E.W. Glafcke standing at Cold Rock Spring in the
Bighorn Mountains, a man standing on the side of a cliff above him
undated
1
06
E.W. Glafcke, Mr. Thayer and Mr. Towns at Goose
Creek camp in the Bighorn Mountains, wagon and tent in the background
undated
1
07
The L.H. Brooks Party on a wagon at Dome Lake in
the Bighorn Mountains, summer cottages in the background
undated
1
08
Elt Waisner playing a prank on unidentified man in
camp at Smith's Fork of the Green River in
1902
1
08a
Two men in camp at Smith's Fork of the Green River,
September 1898
1
09
"Rocky Mountain Canary Birds, Ute Pass - Col,
Unitah Mt." Donkeys with packs traveling along the Ute Pass
undated
1
10
Two men standing at camp in the Utah Uintah
Mountains,
1904
1
11
A
heavily loaded supply wagon stuck in mud, a man tending to a horse behind
it.
undated
1
12
A survey crew posing for a photo with their equipment.
undated
1
13
Two men playing a prank in camp, a man relaxes near a tent behind
them.
undated
1
14
Duplicate of #11
undated
1
15
Five men sitting atop a horse drawn supply
wagon
undated
1
16
A camp scene with two men sitting in a tent, survey
equipment dispersed about the camp
undated
1
17
A camp scene with man preparing food (?) from the
back end of a wagon, man looking-on
undated