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    <title>Topographic instructions of the United States Geological Survey</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Birdseye, Claude Hale</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1878-1941</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Beaman, William Major</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1867-1937</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Douglas, Edward Morehouse</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1855-1932</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Frye, Helen Marie</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1889-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Pendleton, Thomas P.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1885-</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Washington</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>U.S. Govt. print. off.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1928</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>v, 432 p. incl. illus., tables, diagrs. 29 pl. (incl. map (part fold.) plans, fold. chart) fold tab. 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>A. Administration, by H. M. Frye.--B. Triangulation, comp. by E. M. Douglas.--C. Transit traverse, comp. by E. M. Douglas.--D. Levelling, comp. by E. M. Douglas.--E. Topographic mapping, by W. M. Beaman.--F. Map compilation from aerial photographs, by T. P. Pendleton.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">C. H. Birdseye, chief topographic engineer.</note>
  <note>At head of title:  Department of the interior.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Topographical surveying</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Surveys</topic>
    <topic>Plotting</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Relief models</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QE75 .B9 no. 788</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">526.8</classification>
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      <title>Bulletin 788</title>
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