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Subject Telescopes

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. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Photo 1253/1(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(58)
Title:
'Soldiers of the 72nd (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders) Regiment.' A heliograph team equipped with early Aldis lamps and signalling mirrors which were deployed for long-distance mountain-top to mountain-top communications back to Imperial India. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
Scope & Content:
View of sixteen men in uniform posing with signalling devices such as mirrors, lamps, flags and telescopes. There are tents and a building in the background. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 271', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 201...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

9. Talbot Photo 1(228)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(228)
Title:
Swansea Pilots. Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Quality rating 'A' in pencil and inscribed in ink on verso: '111. Swansea Pilots'. Genre: Portrait Photography Study of two men leaning on the harbour wall, looking out to sea, one with a telescope held to his eye. Image size 87 x 104 mm with paper tabs on verso.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before 1847
Extent:
1 item

10. X.1067, 2(571)

Reference (shelfmark):
X.1067, 2(571)
Title:
Telescopes; Buron. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
Scope & Content:
View of two of the telescopes exhibited by the French maker Buron.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item