Subject: Architecture / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/7/11
Title:: Murraysburg street scene.
Scope & Content:: Murraysburg street scene. An unidentified person wearing a dress and spectacles is walking with a dog on a leash. They appear also on PLB16_0005. Partially visible on the left is a low wall with a fence - this appears identical to the fence around the Dutch Reformed Church in PLB16_0005. PLB16_0...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/7/13
Title:: Murraysburg seen from outside the town.
Scope & Content:: Murraysburg seen from outside the town. Identification based on the appearance of the Dutch Reformed Church building. The profile of the hills in the background may secure this identification. In the foreground is scrubby veldt and the dry course of a non-perennial river with a low bridge. No ob...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/7/15
Title:: John S. Paraskevopoulos and another with a mounted three-camera instrument and a small telescope
Scope & Content:: John S. Paraskevopoulos and an unidentified male next to an equatorial fork mount, carrying three cameras, on a temporary stand. Paraskevopoulos is sitting on the ground while the other person is standing. On the ground to the right of Paraskevopoulos is a pith helmet. On the far left is a small...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/9
Title:: Boyden Plate Box 19: Boyden Observatory, telescopes (Set 2)
Scope & Content:: A collection of images of telescopes. Two are of telescopes at Boyden: the 24-inch Bruce and the 13-inch Refractor. The image of the 13-inch telescope clearly belongs to a set in a different Plate Box. All the images are undated, but the plate of the Bruce telescope has a matching lantern slide,...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 5

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/9/1
Title:: 74-inch Radcliffe Reflector, Pretoria
Scope & Content:: Interior of the 74-inch building at Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, showing the telescope and polar axis, from the north-west. The telescope is to the east. Note the protective string-tied wrappings around the circles, secondary assemblage, and elsewhere. Stencilled on one of the dome trusses i...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/9/3
Title:: 74-inch Radcliffe Reflector, Pretoria
Scope & Content:: Interior of the 74-inch building at Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, showing the north pier, the RA assembly and the mirror end of the telescope, seen from below and looking south-west. The telescope is to the east. Note the protective string-tied wrappings around the circles. Below the mirror c...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/9/4
Title:: The 24-inch Bruce Telescope with open roof and two people, 1931.
Scope & Content:: The 24-inch Bruce telescope and enclosure, seen looking north-northeast. The roof is open and the telescope is east of the pier, pointing north-west. The dewcap has been removed. Two people stand near the counterweight. A packing crate lies near the north-west corner of the building, and another...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/9/5
Title:: Adjusting the 13-inch refractor (3 of 3)
Scope & Content:: Three people inside the 13-inch building, at the eyepiece end of the 13-inch refractor, which is pointed nearly vertically. The back end of the refractor is missing. One of the persons is standing on top of a ladder beneath the open end of the tube and is almost wholly inside the tube. The two o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/10
Title:: Boyden Plate Box 20: Boyden Observatory, 60-inch telescope
Scope & Content:: A collection of images of the 60-inch telescope at Boyden Observatory, and its mounting, under construction. These form part of a series of images of the construction of this facility, which is dated to May 1932. A faded pencilled note on the plate box reads: "60[inch] telesc no2". n/a. Extent...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 8

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/10/1
Title:: Installing the polar axis of the 60-inch Rockefeller Telescope.
Scope & Content:: Interior view of the 60-inch Rockefeller building under construction. The polar axis of the mount is suspended by a crane and is positioned near the north pier. A person, wearing a hat, is seated on the axis near the cross head. The walls are not yet clad and buildings are visible in the backgro...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 1

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