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Title: View of shoreline from a barge
Identifier(s): graphics:455; APSimg5919
Description: Peale #343a.
Creator: Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
Source: Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches (Mss.B.P31.15d);
Subject: Natural history; Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885; Barges; Coastlines
Date: [1838-1842]

Title: Report of a commission appointed to examine the triangulation of Mr. James Ferguson, assistant U.S. Coast Survey upon the coast of the United States, during the years, 1844-45. Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 1, 1847
Identifier(s): text:254; APSimg6462; Goodman Number: 155; 973 C683 No. 631
Description: Signed in type by Benjamin Peirce, Andrew Talcott, and Charles Davies. Reveals the commission decision that the "real character" of Mr. Ferguson's work was "defective and uncertain in results."
Creator: United States. Office of Coast Survey
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Coastlines; Surveying
Date: 1847

Title: View of shoreline & ships from a barge
Identifier(s): graphics:463; APSimg5921
Description: Peale #344.
Creator: Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
Source: Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches (Mss.B.P31.15d);
Subject: Natural history; Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885; Barges; Coastlines; Sailing ships
Date: [1838-1842]

Title: General considerations showing the impolicy of the adoption by Congress of the recommendation of the secretary of the Navy to transfer the Coast and Geodetic Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Department
Identifier(s): text:312; APSimg6537; Goodman Number: 160; 973 C683 No. 76
Description: Broadside arguing against a proposed move of the Coast and Geodetic Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Department.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Surveying; Coastlines; Navies
Date: n.d.