National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Links

• Digital file versions of a wide variety of historic legacy documents, including annual reports of the Coast Survey, daily weather maps of the United States from their beginning in 1871, and the annual reports of the U.S. Fish Commission.

• Digital files of some of the historic maps and charts produced by the Coast Survey since the 1840s.

• Digital images of approximately 30,000 photographs in the NOAA Photo Library. These encompass thousands of historic photographs from the Coast Survey as well as historic and contemporary photographs covering NOAA activities and responsibilities, including marine sanctuaries, deep-sea ocean exploration, and much else.

NOAA 200th Anniversary web site
http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/

NOAA History site - NOAA legacy, biographies, stories and tales from the workers in the Weather Service, the Fisheries Service, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey
http://www.history.noaa.gov/

NOAA Heritage Page - includes links to various materials dealing with Coast and Geodetic Survey heritage
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/edocs/heritage.html

From NOAA Central Library's FAQs page, History section - includes info on NOAA Administrators, National Marine Fisheries Service history, and NOAA records
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/refservices/faqs.html#noaahistory