U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1050

The United States Geological Survey: 1879-1989

By Mary C. Rabbitt

A history of the relation of geology during the first 110 years of the U.S. Geological Survey to the development of public-land, Federal-science, and mapping policies and the development of mineral resources in the United States

Introduction
Geological Surveys Before the Civil War
The Four Great Surveys of the West
Establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey
Organizing the U.S. Geological Survey
The First Quarter-Century
Beginning the Second Quarter-Century
World War I
The 1920's
The Depression Years
World War II
Postwar and Cold War
The Korean War
The Survey at 75
A New Age Begins
The Survey at 100
Into the Second Century
Notes
Selected References
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Logos taken from early and present-day annual reports.