Alta Vista Observatory, from the northern lava ridge. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
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Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 303, looking down onto the stone buildings of the observing station, with the telescope visible.
Tent scene on Mount Guajara, 8903 feet high. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
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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...
Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
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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...
The equitorial camera [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
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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.
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 ...
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.