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).
[High Rock Observatory, near Pen Mar Park, view looking west, Maryland...
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Observatory, Harvard College - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...
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[Observatory of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,Mich.]
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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.
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
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
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
[The Schneekoppe and Observatory, Riesengebirge, Germany]
Historic Sites Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Observatory, Patterson Park, Baltimore, Md.
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New concrete observatory tower, Vicksburg, Miss.
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NAVAL OBSERVATORY. TIME BROADCASTING INSTRUMENTS
Photograph shows instruments at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Naval Observatory - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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Naval Observatory - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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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.
To "shoot" the sun. Capt. Edward T. Pollock (left) and Capt. F.B. Litt...
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Georgetown University Seismological Observatory installs only Galitzin...
Public domain photograph of college lab, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Bull's new U.S. Home. The new British Embassy as it looks today. ...
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View from McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas
Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California
Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
[Devil's Lake from Observatory Hill, Wisconsin]
Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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, Mausoleum, Flagstaff, Coconino County, AZ
Survey number: HABS AZ-206-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...
Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B 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
Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...
Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172
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
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
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, mammoth plate negative
Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Observatory, Mt. [Mount] Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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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).
Naval Observatory, [Washington, D.C., 8/18/24]
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The 1897 Yerkes Observatory is a research institution operated by the ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
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
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
Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California
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Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California
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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, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
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
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.
Old Naval Observatory (1st photo c. 1855)
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[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
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, 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
[Allegheny Observatory, Riverview Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
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Observatory, Munjoy Hill, Portland, Me.
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Naval observatory transit telescope which observes the "Clock Stars" [...
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Lake Geneva from the top of the great dome of the Yerkes Observatory
J147320 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Wilfrid Scott Beguelin; November 4, 1910.
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
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
Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imper...
Harbor with boats and cultural buildings, including the Hermitage and the Marble and Winter Palaces.
Rome from Vatican Observatory, Panoramic Photograph
J132510 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Moffett Studio; October 4, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago.
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
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
U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. during American Civil War
Photograph shows the Old Naval Observatory, Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C. No. B1198. Original negative in National Archives Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860-1985, Seri... More
Devil's Lake from Observatory Hill, mammoth plate negative
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[Georgetown University from observatory, Washington, D.C.]
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Naval Observatory tran[...] clock, switchboard & chronograph time rec.
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Naval observatory, [Washington, D.C.]
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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.
The city of Verdun, from The Citidel [sic], showing French observatory...
Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 202. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.
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.
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
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
Portland Observatory, 138 Congress Street, Portland, Cumberland County...
Suggested address, 138 Congress Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Significance: The Portland Observatory is a maritime signal tower located on Munjoy Hill. It remains at its original location, althoug... 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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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
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
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.
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, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...
Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172