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Subject Optical Devices Digitised Content No Material Type Photographs

1. 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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

2. 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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

3. 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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

4. 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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

5. 8560.i.22, 1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(3)
Title:
The equitorial camera [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Showing the telescopic camera for the observation of the total solar eclipse at Camorta, being set up at the observation station by members of the Indian party.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1875
Extent:
1 item

6. C.44.h.5, 2(571)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.44.h.5, 2(571)
Title:
Telescopes. Buron [at the Great Exhibition, London]. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of two telescopes, on display at the Great Exhibition.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

7. C.44.h.5, 2(584)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.44.h.5, 2(584)
Title:
Disc of flint glass. Chance Brothers and Co. [at the Great Exhibition, London]. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a disc of optical glass, on display at the Great Exhibition.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

8. C.44.h.5, 2(587)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.44.h.5, 2(587)
Title:
Optical glass. Daguet [at the Great Exhibition, London]. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of an arrangement of optical glass discs, displayed at the Great Exhibition.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

9. Godwin Photo 14/1(95)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 14/1(95)
Title:
Dover Harbour. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '5573-7-32 / RRS 20 + 20 / Day 6 p.85 - with one of the harbour pics / Dover Harbour / 4*'. Genre: Portrait Photography An elderly man wearing a cap looks through his telescope which is pointing out to the harbour. The protective cover shows the crop lines and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1166/1(118)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1166/1(118)
Title:
Aziza spying [Tral]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Snapshot view, showing the tracker Aziza, seated on a ridge, looking through a telescope, during a hunting trip in Tral in December 1913.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 item