Collection Materials
Items below represent materials used in the exhibit from the University of Minnesota Libraries collections.
U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930.
U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Manual of Surveying Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States and Private Land Claims. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902.
U.S. War Department. Technical Manual: Surveying, no. 5-235. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940.
U.S. Dept. of the Army. Topographic Surveying, Technical Manual no. 5-234. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953.
United States Armed Forces Institute. Instructor’s Course Outline: Surveying Technical Course, Education Manual no. 908a. Madison, WI: United States Armed Forces Institute, 1944.
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Cadastral Survey. Manual of Surveying Instructions: For the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States. Denver, CO: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009.
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Running Line: Recollections of Surveyors. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Land Management, 1991.
Evans, Richard T., and Helen M. Frye. History of the Topographic Branch (Division), Circular 1341. Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey, 2009.
Cazier, Lola. Surveys and Surveyors of the Public Domain, 1785-1975. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Land Management, 1976.