Maps and Charts
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Field, Cyrus
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cyrus W. Field Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1849 - 1880
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1386, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of maps and charts related to the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable.  Included are "sea soundings" which refer to data taken from soundings used in bathymetry to make maps of the sea floor and measure depth.