Search Tips

Archival records from Endangered Records in the Boyden Observatory Archive (EAP1190-1)

Archive type

Content type

Related places

Languages

Scripts

Related subjects

Grid view
List view
Showing 616 to 630 of 1,066 results

  • View of Modder River from 60-inch observer platform

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/21
    Looking from the observer platform through the open dome slit to the Modder River beyond. The 60-inch telescope is on the right, oriented…

  • Unknown instrument and housing

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/22
    Unknown location. Buildings in background exclude Boyden as location. Looks like an alt-azimuth mounted small-aperture camera. n/a. Extent: 1…

  • Unknown device inside a dome

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/23
    Three-legged support. n/a. Extent: 1 photograph. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 21cm, width 16cm. Condition of original material…

  • Aluminising tank, Sutherland

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/24
    Person kneeling, looking in to a mirror held vertically in an aluminising tank. n/a. Extent: 1 photograph. Size and dimensions of original material…

  • Aluminising tank, Sutherland

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/25
    Two people next to aluminising tank, which holds several small mirrors. n/a. Extent: 1 photograph. Size and dimensions of original material: Height…

  • Aluminising tank, Sutherland

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/26
    Person standing next to a mirror held horizontally in an aluminising tank. n/a. Extent: 1 photograph. Size and dimensions of original material:…

  • Aluminising tank, Sutherland

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/27
    Detail of a section of an aluminising tank. n/a. Extent: 1 photograph. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 26cm, width 21cm. Condition…

  • Aluminising tank, Sutherland

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/28
    Two people, Eric Banner and Joe Churms (staff members, South African Astronomical Observatory), looking down at a mirror in an aluminising tank. n/…

  • Residence, Boyden Observatory

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/29
    Early image, with scrub instead of a planted garden. Three pillars (perhaps for a clothes line) at left. Clouds. n/a. Extent: 1 photograph. Size…

  • Apparatus

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/30
    Signage: "DUNSINK OBSERVATORY DUBLIN IRELAND". n/a. Extent: 1 photograph. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 26cm, width…

  • Early structures at Boyden Observatory

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/31
    Office Building, Residence, and Garage. Early image. Photo has yellowish cast. n/a. Extent: 1 photograph. Size and dimensions of original material…

  • Early structures at Boyden Observatory

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/32
    Fascinating view of the instrument row under construction: (l.t.r.) Transit, 8-inch Bache, 3-inch Camera, 10-inch Metcalf, 13-inch Clarke, Bruce…

  • Early view of the 60-inch Rockefeller construction site

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/33
    An early view of the 60-inch Rockefeller construction site, looking north-east. The rock cutting for the building is still relatively small.…

  • Early view of the 60-inch Rockefeller construction site

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/34
    An early view of the 60-inch Rockefeller construction site, looking east-northeast. The rock cutting for the building is still relatively small.…

  • Construction of the 60-inch Rockefeller building, 1931 November 11

    Item Ref: EAP1190/1/6/8/35
    Written on back: "Harvard koppie, Mazelspoort, November 11, 1931. / Construction of the bottom ring of the 60 inch turret.". Duplicate of…