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Photographs of the Yolo Base Line, California, 1881
BANC PIC 1980.025 --AX  
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:1 Photographs of the Yolo Baseline. California, 1881. W. Suess. Photo.

 

:2 Yolo Base Line Party

 

:3 The Men of the Party

 

:4 The Moveable Tent or "Yolo Buggy", 51 feet long under which all measurements were made.

 

:5 "Yolo Buggy at S.E. at close of second measurement. (The 35 foot brick pier removed, but protecting tower left partly dismantled. 6996 bars in 37 working days. Base 17,486 metres.)

 

:6 Field comparisons of bars with standard. Side of "Yolo Buggy" raised to show the working.

 

:7 Moveable tent or "Yolo Buggy" at Plainfield road measuring fractional bar at Fence stone.

 

:8 Measuring across one of the sloughs. "Dry Sl ough" Trestle, 115 feet long, 22 feet high at footpath, 25 feet at rail.

 

:9 Camp near middle base, from the Northwest.

 

:10 Camp near middle base, from the East.

 

:11 Camp near middle base, from the Northeast.