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Throwback Thursday: Koreshans, 1897

Check out this postcard showing the Koreshan Geodetic Survey near Naples. Note the rectilineator instrument the was used to create a straight measuring line and 'prove' the earth is concave. The short gentleman in the center with the creased black hat, next to the woman in white, is identified as Ulysses G.

 

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