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EAP1190/1/7/7
- Record Id:
- 040-004403667
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004402810
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100173882453.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1190/1/7/7
- Title:
- Boyden Plate Box 16: People, telescopes and urban scenes
- Scope & Content:
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A set of images which may relate to an expedition to observe a solar eclipse. Several images show street scenes in Murraysburg and Cradock, South Africa. A well-observed solar eclipse occurred on 01 Oct 1940. There is also a series of images showing people (including observatory director John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos) with a three-camera instrument on a driven equatorial fork mount. The device is set up outdoors at an unknown location, but certainly not the Boyden Observatory terrain. Unfortunately the faded pencilled note on the plate box, which reads: "Aug '84 Old instruments, film and plate ?HK Instr No 2", does not shed any light on the contents. All the images are undated.
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Extent: 16 glass plates.
Size and dimensions of original material: Height 8.2cm, width 10.7cm, thickness 0.3cm.
Condition of original material: Stable.
Author(s)/Creator(s): English.
Scribe(s): Latin.
Publisher(s): Left-to-Right.
Editor(s): Unrestricted.
Volume number: N/a.
Original institution reference: PLB16.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Boyden Observatory Archive
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004402810
036-004403599
040-004403667 - Is part of:
- EAP1190/1 : Endangered Records in the Boyden Observatory Archive
EAP1190/1/7 : Photographic Plates
EAP1190/1/7/7 : Boyden Plate Box 16: People, telescopes and urban scenes - Contains:
- EAP1190/1/7/7/1 : John S. Paraskevopoulos with a mounted three-camera instrument
EAP1190/1/7/7/2 : Cradock street scene
EAP1190/1/7/7/3 : Cradock street scene
EAP1190/1/7/7/4 : Unknown male with a mounted three-camera instrument
EAP1190/1/7/7/5 : Murraysburg street scene.
EAP1190/1/7/7/6 : Two males with a mounted three-camera instrument
EAP1190/1/7/7/7 : Two males with a mounted three-camera instrument and a small telescope
EAP1190/1/7/7/8 : Two men sitting on a rock in the veld.
EAP1190/1/7/7/9 : Street scene in unknown location
EAP1190/1/7/7/10 : Murraysburg street scene.
EAP1190/1/7/7/11 : Murraysburg street scene.
EAP1190/1/7/7/12 : A three-camera instrument on an equatorial fork mount, set up outdoors
EAP1190/1/7/7/13 : Murraysburg seen from outside the town.
EAP1190/1/7/7/14 : J.S. Paraskevopoulos and another sitting on a rock in the veld.
EAP1190/1/7/7/15 : John S. Paraskevopoulos and another with a mounted three-camera instrument and a small telescope
EAP1190/1/7/7/16 : Murraysburg street scene.
Click here to View / search full list of parts of EAP1190/1/7/7 - Hierarchy:
- 032-004402810[0007]/036-004403599[0007]/040-004403667
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1190/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 16
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1190-1-7-7 (opens in a new tab)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not Applicable
- Start Date:
- 1891
- End Date:
- 1994
- Date Range:
- 1891-1994
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- User Conditions:
- CC BY-NC
This item is part of the Endangered Archives Programme.
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- Former External References:
- PLB16
- Information About Copies:
- Digital copies are also held by: Centre for Astronomical Heritage (CfAH)
- Information About Originals:
- The original material is located in Boyden Observatory, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)