[The Giant Camera, 70 feet long, which will be used by the Hamburg Expedition for photographing the Eclipse of the Sun (Harvard Observatory)]

[The Giant Camera, 70 feet long, which will be used by the Hamburg Expedition for photographing the Eclipse of the Sun (Harvard Observatory)]

Digitized film strip
Negative

William M. Van der Weyde

Maker
American, 1870–1929

[The Giant Camera, 70 feet long, which will be used by the Hamburg Expedition for photographing the Eclipse of the Sun (Harvard Observatory)]

1905
Gelatin silver negative
6.5x8.5 in.
Gift of New York Public Library
1974.0056.0862
Inscriptions (typed on paper mat) "The Giant Camera, 70 feet long, which will be used by the Hamburg Expedition for photographing the Eclipse of the Sun on (the 30th Inst) [crossed out] Pictures 34 inches square will be taken by this instrument"(in pencil)"1905" "August 30, 1905"

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