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Image number: RS.10683
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Solar eclipse of August 1887
Date
1889
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Library reference
R61850
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 26mm
width (print): 26mm
height (mount): 230mm
width (mount): 151mm
width (print): 26mm
height (mount): 230mm
width (mount): 151mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Eight photographs of the total solar eclipse visible in Russia on 7 August 1889. Observations made from various locations in the Urals and Siberia.
Extra-illustrations pasted before the title-page of the book Eclipse totale du soleil...Aout, 1887....issued in Russian [title page also in French] by the Société physico-chimique Russe (St, Petersburg, 1889)
Each photograph is captioned below with its place of origin: “Polock”; “Petrowski”; “Juriewetz”; “Kuschura (Ural)”; “Nigmi Tagil (Ural)”; “Krasnojarsk (Siberia)”; “Possiet”.
Extra-illustrations pasted before the title-page of the book Eclipse totale du soleil...Aout, 1887....issued in Russian [title page also in French] by the Société physico-chimique Russe (St, Petersburg, 1889)
Each photograph is captioned below with its place of origin: “Polock”; “Petrowski”; “Juriewetz”; “Kuschura (Ural)”; “Nigmi Tagil (Ural)”; “Krasnojarsk (Siberia)”; “Possiet”.
Associated place