observatory

A view of the bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the Brit...

Title from item. Re-engraving of earlier print shows the British fleet bombarding Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812. Purchase; Old Print Shop; 2012; (DLC/PP-2013:004).

Earlham College Observatory, National Road, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Significance: Earlham Observatory, erected 1861, is a plain, strictly utilitarian building, specifically designed to house a telescope. The scope was built in 1856 by R.B. Rutherford, pioneer American astronom... More

[Observatory of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,Mich.]

Prof. Hall of Naval Observatory with 26 inch telescope, [Washington, D...

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Your binoculars could prevent this Loan your 6 x 30 or 7 x 50 Zeiss or...

Poster asking citizens to loan their binoculars to the Navy, showing a pair of binoculars and a ship sinking.

Old Naval Observatory (1st photo c. 1855)

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Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Observatory, Munjoy Hill, Portland, Me.

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Naval observatory transit telescope which observes the "Clock Stars" [...

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[The Schneekoppe and Observatory, Riesengebirge, Germany]

Historic Sites

Observatory, Patterson Park, Baltimore, Md.

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Naval Observatory

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U.S. Observatory. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Photograph shows the Old Naval Observatory, Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Earlham College Observatory, National Road, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Significance: Earlham Observatory, erected 1861, is a plain, strictly utilitarian building, specifically designed to house a telescope. The scope was built in 1856 by R.B. Rutherford, pioneer American astronom... More

Naval Observatory. Exterior of Naval Observatory with dome

Photograph shows buildings at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his...

Print shows illustration for the New York Sun relating to the Great Moon Hoax with human-bat creatures, unicorns, and other imaginery beings on the Moon. 246 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on co... More

Prof. Hall of Naval Observatory with 26 inch telescope, [Washington, D...

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Birthplace of Astrophysics, the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observa...

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Griffith Observatory is in Los Angeles, California

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Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California

The land surrounding the observatory was donated to the City of Los Angeles by Colonel Griffith J. Griffith. He also donated funds to build an observatory, exhibit hall, and planetarium. The building design was... More

Naval Observatory. Telescope house, Naval Observatory

Photograph shows the telescope house at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

World's Fair, Elgin National Watch Co. Observatory, oblique shot

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Detail of Griffith Observatory, above Los Angeles, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L.A.'s Griffith Park, it commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including Downtown Los Angeles ... More

Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Panoramic view of the world's largest city from the observatory of New...

Inside print shows bird's-eye view panorama of New York City; outside print shows interior and exterior views of the Empire State Building, map with location, and a view of New York City. K57359 U.S. Copyright ... More

Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imper...

Print showing panoramic view of St. Petersburg, including Academy of Arts, colleges, Cronstad (i.e., Kronshtadt), warehouses, and the Gottorp Globe. Title also in French. Plate 3 of 4. Includes key to building... More

Visibility zero unless you lend your binoculars to the navy 6 x 30 or ...

Poster asking citizens to lend their binoculars to the Navy, showing a ship hit by a torpedo. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Panoramic view of the world's largest city from the observatory of New...

Inside print shows bird's-eye view panorama of New York City; outside print shows interior and exterior views of the Empire State Building, map with location, and a view of New York City. K57359 U.S. Copyright ... More

Peking - ancient observatory, lantern slide

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Devil's Lake from Observatory Hill

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Observatory, Mt. [Mount] Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.

[The Observatory, Ann Arbor, Mich.]

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Naval Observatory, [Washington, D.C., 8/18/24]

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The 1897 Yerkes Observatory is a research institution operated by the ...

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Pomfret School Alumni House Observatory, Pomfret, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Pomfret School Alumni House Observatory, Pomfret, Connecticut

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Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California

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Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California

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Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California

The land surrounding the observatory was donated to the City of Los Angeles by Colonel Griffith J. Griffith. He also donated funds to build an observatory, exhibit hall, and planetarium. The building design was... More

Building housing the Harlan J. Smith Telescope at the McDonald Observa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More

Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...

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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...

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Rutgers University Observatory, George Street, New Brunswick, Middlese...

Significance: First building at Rutgers erected exclusively for scientific purposes. Dedicated June 18, 1866. Survey number: HABS NJ-723 Building/structure dates: 1866 Initial Construction

No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch &...

Poster showing a periscope emerging from the sea, with a ship in flames and sinking in the distance.

Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE

1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More

Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE

1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More

Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve Universit...

Significance: The Loomis Observatory was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains being first used September 8, 1838. It is now the second oldest on the American continent. It was designed by and b... More

Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve Universit...

Significance: The Loomis Observatory was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains being first used September 8, 1838. It is now the second oldest on the American continent. It was designed by and b... More

U. of M., Ann Arbor, the Observatory

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China - Peking - instruments atop observatory - Frank G. Carpenter col...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: China. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Observatory, Harvard College

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[High Rock Observatory, near Pen Mar Park, view looking west, Maryland...

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[The Observatory, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.]

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[Telescope at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts ...

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Children Snowballing Near Observatory, St. Louis (Shaw's) Botanical Ga...

Observatory in background. Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson; International View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Gazebos; Mo. S... More

Adm. Bldg., Naval Observatory

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Distant view of one of the stellar observatories at the McDonald Obser...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More

Amherst College, Lawrence Observatory, Route 116, Amherst, Hampshire C...

Significance: The observatory was the first building erected by the college exclusively for scientific pursuits. Survey number: HABS MA-1233 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction Building/struc... More

University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...

Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607

Co-operation of the principal maritime nations in collecting materials...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 200, Folder 41a.

Maria Mitchell Observatory, 3 Vestal Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...

Significance: On July 15, 1908, the Observatory on Vestal Street was dedicated in honor of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a disting... More

Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...

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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...

Observatory tent, N. A. [i.e., North American] Boundary Commission

Photograph shows Captain Charles J. Darrah, R.E., seated in tent, and Captain Robert W. Haig, R.A. of the British North American Boundary Commission posed at an astronomical observation tent with theodolite, du... More

Observatory tent, N. A. [i.e., North American] Boundary Commission

Photograph shows Captain Charles J. Darrah, R.E., seated in tent, and Captain Robert W. Haig, R.A. of the British North American Boundary Commission posed at an astronomical observation tent with theodolite, du... More

Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,...

Significance: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, with funds provided by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, established the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 9 DTM) in 1904 to survey and me... More

Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory, 100 De Sellum Avenue, Gaithersburg,...

Significance: Research on the dynamics of rotating bodies conducted by the Swiss mathematician Leohardt Euler, ca. 1770, first suggested that the solid body of the earth might wobble slightly on its axis of rot... More

Great solar eclipse. To be seen every day at West's observatory, No. 7...

Print shows an advertisement for West's Blacking Climax with five adults, a child, and a dog using smoked glass to observe West's Blacking logo eclipse the sun. The man on the left states, "What an awful eclips... More

Grand Falls at Niagara from near the observatory, Goat Island, July 22...

Drawing shows a view of Niagara Falls from Goat Island including a pedestrian bridge leading to an observation tower.

[From the north, Observatory Avenue, Liège, Belgium]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905. Print no. "8631". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ... More

Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal. /

"The background of this picture is the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal. This observatory, the gift of James Lick, of Pennsylvania, was constructed at a cost of $700,000, being equipped with one of the mos... More

View from McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas

Bengt Strömgren, astronomer, Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin / World Tel...

Bengt Strömgren, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Griffith Observatory on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L...

Sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L.A.'s Griffith Park, it commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacifi... More

The Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, an astronomical obs...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More

The Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, an astronomical obs...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More

University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...

Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607

Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...

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Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,...

Significance: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, with funds provided by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, established the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 9 DTM) in 1904 to survey and me... More

Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Main Street, looking north from Warren Observatory

Photograph shows Valley Street, Hot Springs, Arkansas, with the Hale House hotel on the right. Digital image available for back of stereograph. Stamped on back of mount: J.F. Kennedy, Artist, Hot Springs, Ark.

University of Michigan, Detroit Observatory, Observatory & Ann Streets...

Significance: The 1853-54 Detroit Observatory was one of the nation's first astronomical houses. It contains the 12-1/2 inch refracting telescope, which was once the largest refractor in the nation and the thi... More

Observatory Hill, Wellesley College

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NAVAL OBSERVATORY. C.B. WATTS TURNING BACK THE CLOCK

Photograph shows C.B. Watts turning back a clock at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Astronomers at Naval Observatory viewing eclipse of sun, 1/24/25

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A.W. Butler, winter cottage in Mount Kisco, New York. Observatory

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The Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, an astronomical obs...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More

Amherst College, Lawrence Observatory, Route 116, Amherst, Hampshire C...

Significance: The observatory was the first building erected by the college exclusively for scientific pursuits. Survey number: HABS MA-1233 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction Building/struc... More

University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...

Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607

University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...

Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607

Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...

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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...

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Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,...

Significance: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, with funds provided by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, established the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 9 DTM) in 1904 to survey and me... More

Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172