Field notes, a historical perspective — Exploring Overland

Explorers have been keeping hand-written field notes—with or without sketches—for hundreds of years, if not many millennia (on observing many rock art sites, I’ve been struck by the possibility that early humans were using rock and pigment to record their travels and nature information for hunting a

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REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843-'44. BY BREVET CAPTAIN J.C. FREMONT, OF THE TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS

Field Notes: Unexposed - The Newsprint

Field Notes: Unexposed - The Newsprint

Topographical Map Of The Road From Missouri To Oregon…In VII Sections…From the field notes and journal of Capt. J. C. Fremont, and from sketches and notes made on the ground by his

Charles Keasing Revolutionary simultaneous field notes notebooks

Charles Keasing Revolutionary simultaneous field notes notebooks Give edge Experiment

Topographical Map Of The Road From Missouri To Oregon…In VII Sections…From the field notes and journal of Capt. J. C. Fremont, and from sketches and notes made on the ground by his

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Folios 45v–46r Marine biology, It works, Folios

Field Notes: Unexposed - The Newsprint

Overland Civil War 150 Pinhole Project