AMERICAN TOPOGRAPHER: The Working Years of George Stanley Druhot, 1914-1963.
by Druhot, George Stanley
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0910845255
- ISBN 13
- 9780910845250
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Rancho Cordova, California:: Landmark Enterprises,, (1985.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, still in shrinkwrap.). First printing. Autobiography covering five decades of working as a topographer for the US Geological Survey, across 22 Western states and the territory of Hawaii, spanning two world wars, the Depression, and the coming of age of modern topographic mapping (in fact, Druhot was one of the pioneers of the use of aerial photography in topography.) Also includes information about his wife, and his family, who traveled with him throughout the West - to mining country in California (the mother lode, but also Sonoma County and more), Montana, Utah, Arizona and more - - even a chapter on mapping the Olympics. Includes photographs taken by the author that illustrate much about the life on the traveling survey crews of the early 20th century, and it has a picture of the official USGS wagon wheel survey techniques. Endpaper maps of Oahu, Hawaii. Brief commentary from his wife "A Woman's Vantage Point." Index. 238 pp. Slightly oversized format.
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- Title
- AMERICAN TOPOGRAPHER: The Working Years of George Stanley Druhot, 1914-1963.
- Author
- Druhot, George Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, still in shrinkwrap.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0910845255
- ISBN 13
- 9780910845250
- Publisher
- Landmark Enterprises,
- Place of Publication
- Rancho Cordova, California:
- Date Published
- (1985.)
- Keywords
- sacramento, california, surveying, map-making, utah, arizona, texas, hawaii, olympics, autobiography,
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- California;
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