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1. 010095.de.56(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(1)
Title:
Culminating point of the peak of Teneriffe, 12,198 feet high, showing the interior of the terminal crater of the mountain. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Frontispiece. Stereographic view, showing figures posed among the rocks of the peak: 'Yet wait my friends, said I, one moment more; allow me only another photograph; for these sulphurous exhalations of the ground, have spoilt nearly all my plates today. So Don Mart...
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Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

2. 010095.de.56(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(11)
Title:
Close view of Alta Vista observing station, from the east − altitude 10,702 feet. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 283, looking towards the low stone buildings of the observing station, with a telescope visible on the left behind the wall, and a large block of lava in the foreground. The station is described at pp. 284-285.
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Date Range:
1856
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3. 010095.de.56(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(12)
Title:
Alta Vista Observatory, from the northern lava ridge. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 303, looking down onto the stone buildings of the observing station, with the telescope visible.
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Date Range:
1856
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4. 010095.de.56(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(2)
Title:
Volcanic 'blowing cone' in Orotava, on the northern coast of Teneriffe. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Facing p. 27. Stereographic view looking along a street in La Orotava, towards the volcanic cone, with three men standing in the foreground. See pp. 54-55, for Smyth's description of taking several photographs at this location.
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Date Range:
1856
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5. 010095.de.56(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(3)
Title:
Peak of Teneriffe from Orotava, on the northern coast. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Facing p. 63. Stereographic view looking over the rooftops of La Orotava, towards the summit of Pico de Teide in the distance. See p. 403 for Smyth's notes on the difficulty of securing satisfactory photographs of distant scenes at this location.
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Date Range:
1856
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6. 010095.de.56(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(4)
Title:
Tent scene on Mount Guajara, 8903 feet high. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 103 and showing tents, a telescope and other equipment, with a female figure (Mrs Jessie Smyth), posed among the impedimenta: 'At the back, and on either side of the tent, ran dwarf stone walls, to keep off the wind; the narrow interven...
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Date Range:
1856
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7. 010095.de.56(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(5)
Title:
Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the peak of Teneriffe in the distance. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 131, showing the erected telescope, with two figures posed among the equipment at the base.
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Date Range:
1856
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8. 010095.de.56(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(7)
Title:
Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 173, showing the second mate, standing among scientific equipment: 'To chronicle the exact circumstances under which these high results appeared, the photographic camera was employed with effect. Accordingly in Stereograph, No. 7, may b...
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Date Range:
1856
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9. 1885.i.11(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
1885.i.11(18)
Title:
[National Observatory of Athens.] Photographer: Beck, H.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the negative, ‘H. Beck. Athènes.’ Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking up the hillside towards the Observatory building.
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Date Range:
Early 1860s
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10. 8560.i.22, 1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(1)
Title:
General view of the observing station [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography General view looking towards the thatched huts of the observing station for the total solar eclipse of 6 April 1875, situated on the hillside overlooking the harbour at Camorta.
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Date Range:
Apr 1875
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1 item