1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition

1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition
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1901 Solar Eclipse Expedition
Sumatra Views 113:26 (2008-003)
VI: Yerkes Observatory
Boar hunt near the river at Padang, Sumatra. 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.
Boars | Dogs | Hunters (People) | Hunting | Spears | Rifles (Long guns)
Barnard, Edward Emerson, 1857-1923
1901
Glass plate negatives; 10.0 x 12.3 cm
Padang, Indonesia
Archival Photographic Files
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
apf6-04038

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