National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Links
From the NOAA Central Library home page (www.lib.noaa.gov) users can access:
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