[Notebook with photographs of lightning]
Bound volume
[Notebook with photographs of lightning]
ca. 1887
Bound volume with gelatin silver prints
Overall: 6 × 3 1/2 in. (15.2 × 8.9 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
1983.0679.0001-0015
Inscriptions "In 1880, W.N. Jennings, of Philadelphia, noticed that artists only depicted one form of lightning - an awkward zig-zag, and he decided to see what the camera would show.
For over fifteen years he made lightning photographs in various parts of the world; no two of which were alike, and none 'zig-zag'.
For this pioneer work he was awarded the John Price Wetherill Medal by the Franklin Institute."
[signed] W.N. Jennings / Moylan, Pa.
For over fifteen years he made lightning photographs in various parts of the world; no two of which were alike, and none 'zig-zag'.
For this pioneer work he was awarded the John Price Wetherill Medal by the Franklin Institute."
[signed] W.N. Jennings / Moylan, Pa.
