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Student surveyors from the engineering class, 1875

Student surveyors from the engineering class, 1875 image
Year
1875
Description

Student surveyors from the engineering class of 1875. The previous year professor Joseph B. Davis had organized the first surveying field work camp in the nation. He advised his students, "Young men, when theory and practice differ, use your horse sense!"

Frame location: North side of South University on lawn extension just west of Washtenaw, facing south-southeast

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