Yerkes Observatory Buildings, Instruments, Equipment, Grounds

Yerkes Observatory Buildings, Instruments, Equipment, Grounds
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Yerkes Observatory Buildings, Instruments, Equipment, Grounds
Coelostat Observatory 19:1215b (2008-003)
VI: Yerkes Observatory
Burning of the Coelostat Observatory. Photograph taken at Yerkes Observatory as an electrical fire destroyed the building, a horizontal reflector telescope, and other astronomical instruments, and equipment.
Coelostats | Fires | Reflecting telescopes | Astronomical instruments | Astronomical observatories
Ellerman, Ferdinand, 1869-1940
1902-12-22
Glass plate negatives; 19.5 x 24.8 cm
373 West Geneva Street | Williams Bay, Wisconsin
Y01
Archival Photographic Files
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
apf6-00622

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