Record Details
preface
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | preface |
| Relation | index 6617 |
| Date | 2004-10; 2004-11 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 300.938 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | PREFACE. The necessity for a systematically arranged key or index to the printed annual reports of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, was felt as early as 1878, when only 17 volumes of such reports existed. Under date of January 10, 1878, Maj. H. M. Robert, Corps of Engineers, stationed at Milwaukee, proposed to prepare such a work. Brig. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, approved the project, and expressed the opinion that the work should begin with the report dated March... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,981 |
