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Boyden Plate Box 2: Boyden Observatory Residence
A collection of images of the Boyden Observatory terrain, many featuring the Director's Residence (the house traditionally occupied by the…
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Boyden Plate Box 3: Cloudscapes and landscapes (Set 3)
A collection of images of the Boyden Observatory terrain and surroundings. The sky, with cloud, is prominently featured in each image. All the…
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Boyden Plate Box 7: Scenes from Western Cape, and a girl in a garden
Written in faded pencil on the plate box in which the images were found is "Cape +" and "[Offens]". Several images show outdoor…
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Boyden Plate Box 9: Cloudscapes and landscapes (Set 2)
A collection of images of the Boyden Observatory terrain and surroundings. The sky, with cloud, is prominently featured in each image. All the…
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Boyden Plate Box 11: Total lunar eclipse (1946 June 14) and Michiel Bester with Sky Patrol telescope
A series of images of the Moon undergoing a total lunar eclipse, on 14 Jun 1946, photographed with the 13-inch Boyden Refractor. A faded pencilled…
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Boyden Plate Box 12: Boyden Observatory and surroundings
A collection of images of the Boyden Observatory terrain and surroundings. The sky, with cloud, is prominently featured in each image. All the…
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Boyden Plate Box 16: People, telescopes and urban scenes
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…
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Boyden Plate Box 18: Boyden Observatory, people and telescopes
A collection of images of telescopes at Boyden Observatory: the 24-inch Bruce Telescope, the 13-inch Boyden Refractor, the 60-inch Rockefeller…
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Boyden Plate Box 19: Boyden Observatory, telescopes (Set 2)
A collection of images of telescopes. Two are of telescopes at Boyden: the 24-inch Bruce and the 13-inch Refractor. The image of the 13-inch…
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Boyden Plate Box 20: Boyden Observatory, 60-inch telescope
A collection of images of the 60-inch telescope at Boyden Observatory, and its mounting, under construction. These form part of a series of images…
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Boyden Plate Box 21: People in traditional dress
A collection of group photos of people, at Boyden Observatory and elsewhere, and 1 unidentified landscape image. Some of the group photos show…
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Boyden Plate Box 23: Port Elizabeth scenery
A collection of scenic images of rural landscapes. A faded pencilled note on the plate box reads "PE Garden Route", suggesting that these…
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Boyden Plate Box 25: Solar eclipse, 1940 October 01
Two photographs of the Sun during a total eclipse. Faded pencilled notes on the plate box presumably secures the date and the location: "Sun (…
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Boyden Plate Box 27: Comet Peltier, zodiacal light, and reproductions
Two images of astronomical objects are presented in this set of images: Comet Peltier, imaged in 1936, and the zodiacal light, imaged in 1932. The…
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Boyden Plate Box 32: Boyden Observatory, 60-inch dome construction
A collection of images, from June 1931 to June 1932, showing progress on the construction of the turret for the 60-inch telescope at Boyden…
