1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition

1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition
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1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition
Sumatra Views 113:18 (2008-003)
VI: Yerkes Observatory
Men and a monkey in a Sumatran forest. Photograph taken on the United States Naval Observatory expedition to Sumatra. The eleven member team, of which astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard of Yerkes Observatory was a participant, recorded the total solar eclipse of May 18, 1901.
Monkeys (Animals) | Men | Forests (Plant communities)
Barnard, Edward Emerson, 1857-1923
1901
Glass plate negatives; 9.1 x 12.3 cm
Sumatra, Indonesia
Archival Photographic Files
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
apf6-04030

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