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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