290 The Photographic Survey of a State. — Fischer. 
This base is man and the land upon which he dwells, the re- 
ciprocal influence of both, a relation from which sprung all 
civilizations and which with its attendant phenomena might 
well be called cultural geology. 
To represent these relations no art is better qualified in every 
way than that of photography. Below is given an outline of 
the photographic survey of a state which presents the rela- 
tions stated above in their natural sequence and which, it is 
hoped, may serve as a guide to those interested in such work. 
The photographs intended for museum purposes should all 
be on glass ; and if the process of coloring transparencies of 
which such beautiful examples were shown by the U. S. geo- 
logical survey at the Cincinnati Centennial, can be economi- 
cally employed, a perfect and ideal representation of a com- 
monwealth and all that is embraced within its domain, becomes 
a possibility. 
It is evident that the result of such a survey can be utilized 
in a good many ways. For a home or foreign exposition noth- 
ing more desirable could be asked. All the numerous demands 
for accurate illustrations required by the many professions 
and arts of the day can well be supplied from this source. 
The employment of this material for home decoration is an- 
other possibility. Perfect in color and outline, light and shade, 
these transparencies should replace the sins in color and form 
called chromos which now "adorn" our dwellings. 
Scheme for the Photographic survey of a state. 
Land. Water. 
Physical features Physical features 
due to formative due to destructive 
action of water. action of water. 
Virginal surface and the life it sustains. 
1 Piif Tf- ^^^»^°°'- = Phenomena of life and all that 
USaVkfugTom. pertains thereto. 
Civilized man. 
fLife of the individual. 
Social relations of the individual. 
Individual and his surroundings. 
Individual and his domestic animals. 
Individual as a handworker. 
[Individual as a brainworker. 
Aggregation of individuals. Commune. 
i Primitive commune. 
Commune and its attributes. 
Commune and its social life. 
