We visited Hein and Company today; it is one of our favorite used bookstores. It is in Jackson, Amador County, California.
Anyway I saw they have a lot of old bound U.S.C.S. annual reports from the 19th century, $75 each. I didn't buy any.
I did pick up a soft cover book, "Hayden and His Men" which is a series of photos of Ferdinand V. Hayden and his men who worked for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey in the 19th century.
The old Annual Reports of the Superintendent are wonderful reading. They certainly can be expense to buy. Fortunately NOAA sacrificed a complete set of them and they are all scanned and available on-line -- http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cgs/data_rescue_cgs_annual_reports.html
Thanks for that link Mr B9G.
Also, there are libraries which have been designated as Federal Book Depositories that have many of these documents. In my area, the University of Pittsburgh Hillman Library has a lot of USCGS stuff (and all of the paper quads for the US and many international areas), although I have not been there in quite some time.
Howdy B9G,
Reports are fun, but maps & charts are even more fun. Now that I am in TX, I would love to collect the Triangulation diagrams & leveling routes on the geodetic control diagrams that were produced for these western states ... like all the ones I collected for states out east. Not sayin' where I gottem 😉
WildT2
