1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition

1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition
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1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition
Sumatra Views 114:11 (2008-003)
VI: Yerkes Observatory
Sumatran buildings with thatched roofs. 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.
Buildings (Structures) | Thatched roofs | Grounds (Open spaces)
Barnard, Edward Emerson, 1857-1923
1901
Glass plate negatives; 9.8 x 12.3 cm
Sumatra, Indonesia
Archival Photographic Files
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
apf6-04084

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