Introduction

I am presenting the photographs in this section as a way of bringing together photographs of field trips made by early explorers during the 1800s through the early 1900s. As I was using Ernest F. Burchard’s Mineral Resources of Southeastern Alaska (1920) and T. Nelson Dale’s many U.S. Geological Survey books on marble, granite, and slate, I began to wonder about these early geologists and their assistants and their experiences in the field while gathering the information for these books. First, I created the “Some Early Geologists” section of our web site as a way of introducing some of these early people. The photographs presented here will, hopefully, give everyone an idea of what these people went through and what they saw during their travels of exploration. If you have some early geology field trip photographs that you think will fit in with these photographs or if you know of web sites that accomplish the same thing, feel free to contact me so I can add them to the list of links below that provide photographs of early geology field trips. Peggy B. Perazzo

Some Online Geology Field Trip Photograph Links

• United States Geological Survey Photographic Library (I have presented some of the early field trip photographs from this photographic library in the “Geology Field Trip Photographs” section of this “Geology Field Trip Photographs” section.)

  Mines, Mills, Quarries Photographs

  Photographers

  Pioneer Photographers

  Portraits Collection (Including such people as Clarence King, John Wesley Powell, Florence Bascom, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.)

  What’s New – Recent Additions to the Photographic Library

• The United States Geological Survey: 1879-1989, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1050, by Mary P. Collins Rabbitt is available on the U. S. Geological Survey web site. Several photographs of early U.S. Geological Survey field trips are included in the online version of this publication.

  On the web site, this publication is described as “A history of the relation of geology during the first 110 years of the U.S. Geological Survey to the development of public-land, Federal-science, and mapping policies and the development of mineral resources in the United States.” (A booklet entitled, A Brief History of the U. S. Geological Survey, by Mary C. Rabbitt, U. S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, presents similar text and some of the same photographs as U. S. Survey Circular 1050, cited above.)