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Title: Surveyor On Holke Road
Description: Surveyor identified as W.E.T. standing on Holke Road with equipment writing in book. Photo described as, "On Holke Road. W.E.T., Co. surveyor's gang."
Date: 1915-09-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Man Lying In Grass
Description: Man identified as A. W. Graham, Deputy Co. Surveyor, lying in grass, smoking a pipe and smiling.
Date: 1915-07-14
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Diagram of the State of Missouri
Description: Map of Missouri marked off into blocks of land, each six miles square, known as townships. Symbols indicate whether or not the townships have been subdivided by surveyors. Lead, iron, copper, coal mines are indicated, as well as salt works. Third in a series of four maps showing the progress of surveys in Missouri.
Date: 1845
Object Type: Map

Title: Diagram of the State of Missouri
Description: Map of Missouri showing large areas marked off into six mile square blocks of land known as townships. Symbols indicate whether or not the townships have been subdivided by surveyors. Second in a series of four maps showing the progress of surveys in Missouri.
Date: 1841
Object Type: Map

Title: William Gordon
Description: Chapter of the book about William Gordon, "a surveyor, a clerk, a trader, a trapper, and an Indian affairs officer," supposedly a native of Virginia and War of 1812 veteran, in Saint Louis by 1818 and starting in the Rocky Mountains fur trade in 1822, dying some time after 1847.
Date: 1972
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Field Notes of the Survey of the Cherokee Lands
Description: The second item on this roll of microfilm is the "Field Notes of the Survey of the Cherokee Lands, surveyed in 1836-7 by John C. McCoy." This item contains 43 handwritten pages and is signed by John C. McCoy, September 20, 1837. It contains mention of the "meanders of Neosho River" and of the "Osage Lands."
Date: 1836/1837
Object Type: Archival Material