Foreground: survey marker with sign reading, “This marker used to position the surveyor’s levels for the construction of the building. The Empire State Building rose upward 102 stories from the excavation pit.” Background: replica levels for visitors to view short videos of 1920’s New York City. John Lawson book cover replica at Ellis Island. Interpretive sign reads, “Travel narratives of the early 18th Century often romanticized the ‘new world.’ In his 1709 account of travels in the Carolinas, English explorer and surveyor John Lawson wrote an upbeat description of a bountiful, beautiful land and its peaceful inhabitants to encourage other Europeans to settle the colony.” Surveying scenes viewed through levels in Exhibit 2. Note the survey crew of women, which would have been very unusual in the 1920s, with what appears to be a transit viewing the leveling or stadia rod in the next video. 21 continues Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon | www.plso.org The Lost Surveyor
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