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Lantern Slides
A collection of mounted images most probably used to illustrate lectures and to disseminate news. The slides are a mix of original material from…
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Photographic Prints
The majority of the material dates from the 1930s, and the 1950s. 2 images were taken in the 1970s and 1 in 1994. Several of the prints are from…
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Photographic Plates
255 photographic glass plate negatives (gelatin dry plates), stored in 23 original plate boxes, haphazardly arranged. All appear to be original…
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Astronomical Image Plates
A collection of photographic glass plate negatives (gelatin dry plates) holding images taken from Boyden Observatory, primarily with the ADH…
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Boyden Lantern Slides Box 4: Telescopes and astronomical objects
A collection of slides showing telescopes, observatories, astronomers, and astronomical objects. Several images illustrate the history of Harvard…
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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 Photo Box 15: People, early site construction, telescopes, buildings, and astronomical objects
People (group photo, and a portrait of Alexander William Roberts), early site construction (3 steam wagons carting crates to the Observatory site…
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Boyden Photo Box 12: Telescopes, buildings, observatory terrain, people, and celestial objects
Telescopes (ADH, 60-inch Rockefeller and observer platform, enclosure construction, engine shed construction), buildings (aluminising tank and…
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Boyden Lantern Slides Box 3: Scenery (including South American), astronomical objects, diagrams, Boyden Observatory, and Mazelspoort
A collection of images of Boyden Observatory grounds and environs, 1930-1931. A remarkable photograph shows the Residence and garage under snow. An…
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Boyden Photo Box 11: People, telescopes and buildings at Boyden Observatory, and celestial objects
Images of telescopes (ADH, the 60-inch with photometer, and the coelostat), buildings (several aerial views, the construction of the aluminising…
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Astronomical Images taken at Boyden Observatory
A collection of images taken from Boyden Observatory, primarily with the ADH Telescope and the 10-inch Metcalf Telescope. n/a. Extent: 32 glass…
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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 Photo Box 13: Telescopes, site construction, and buildings of Boyden Observatory
Scenes from Arequipa, steam wagons carting the 60-inch telescope parts (1930 June), the 60-inch observer gallery being unloaded (1930s),…
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Boyden Photo Box 14: Aerial views of Boyden Observatory, the 60-inch telescope, and celestial objects
Aerial views (1932, 1960s), the 60-inch Rockefeller Telescope and its mirror in a vacuum chamber, and several astronomical objects (bright nebulae…
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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…
