[Comets]

[Comets]

Digitized film strip
Negative

William M. Van der Weyde

Maker
American, 1870–1929

[Comets]

Gelatin silver negative
4x5 in.
Gift of New York Public Library
1974.0056.1232
Inscriptions (inscription on photograph) "Fig. 19-Great Comet of September, 1882.
Photographed at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. (From
Clerke's History of Astronomy, 3rd ed.)"

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