Plate, photographic, dry


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Accession Number
2015.0145
Discipline
Humanities
Classification
Photography, Still images, Photographs
Artist / Manufacturer
Harvard College Observatory, HARVARD (manufacturer)
Date / Period
1902 (creation date)
2015 (collection date)
Plate taken July 10, 1902 (period)
Place
Arequipa, Peru (creation)
Peru (use)
Brand / Model
Map of Sky H.M. 41 (model)
Description
Glass, emulsion and paper.

Photographic glass plate negative coated with photographic emulsion. Image in various shades of grey. There is a cream coloured paper with black typewritten print affixed to lower part of the glass.

Print on label "H.M. 41 HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY 14h - 30o/ This photograph covers a region 30o square, and is one of a series of 115 plates covering/ the entire sky twice, as described in H.C. 71, and 185.". Handwritten print visible on the plate's backside "41".

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History of Use
Photographic record of "Map of Sky".
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