Attractive peach-tinted plate Triangulation Station and Mass of Mica Schist Summit of Freemont's Island showing rugged landscape near the triangulation station.From Stansbury's 1853 Exploration and Survey of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Howard Stansbury, a Captain and topographical engineer, was assigned in to survey the region of the Great Salt Lake in search of a possible transcontinental railway route and of a better route between Fort Bridger (Wyoming) and Salt Lake City (Utah).
Triangulation Station and Mass of Mica Schist, Stansbury, 1853
Triangulation Station and Mass of Mica Schist Summit of Freemont's Island, from Stansbury's 1853 Report