The Keuffel & Esser (K&E) Field Engineer’s Book 361 (often referred to as a "Railroad Field Book") is 

a vintage, leather-bound surveying and engineering notebook

Originally manufactured in the early 1900s, it contained squared graph paper for transit notes and was heavily used by civil engineers for railroad surveying, layout, and construction.

 

This copy was owned by Raymond L Garvan

RPI Railroad Survey

Cambridge NY – Salem NY

August 1921

4 ½ x 7 inches, 

90 pages are written in, some blank at back of book.

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Part of spine chipped, leather peeling on covers, worn covers.

Contents are bright.