print email comment close Surveyors of the American West URL: http://digital.nypl.org/surveyors/ Description: This New York Public Library virtual exhibit highlights America's westward expansion through the photographs and searchable notes of photographer William Henry Jackson and of civil/mining engineer Robert Brewster Stanton. Three months of Jackson's diary entries made during the summer of 1869 along with many large format images and stereoscopic views are on display. Four volumes of Stanton's notes and selected photographs taken during two expeditions surveying the canyons along the Colorado River from 1889 to 1890 are also featured. Publisher: New York Public Library Library of Congress Subject Headings: West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources West (U.S.) -- Photographs LII Database Information: Record 2095 created by Susan Rosenblatt on 04/24/2001 Last modification on 08/24/2004 Published: 04/24/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2095