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Genius with telescope Library of Congress

Study drawing shows a putti holding a telescope to one eye, for the painting, The sciences, in the south end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building. A grid covers the drawing.

New York City views. Times Square, the telescope

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

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It costs a dime to look through this Bausch and Lomb high power telesc...

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The Clark Telescope, built in 1896, at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff...

Commissioned in 1895 by the obsevatory's founder, Percival Lowell, the firm of Alvan Clark & Sons of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, built the 24-inch (61-centimetre) aperture f/11.3 refractor telescope. Since it... More

[Union case manufactured by Littlefield, Parsons & Co. showing a young...

Case: Berg, no. 1-177. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, ... More

MAYFLOWER, U.S.S. SAILOR LOOKING THROUGH TELESCOPE ON MAYFLOWER

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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

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

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

Photograph shows Professor Hall at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negat... More

Dome of the Lawrence Lowell Telescope, built in 1928-29 at Lowell Obse...

The 13-inch astrograph was used by Clyde Tombaugh to discover Pluto, the planet (or dwarf planet, depending on one's position in an ongoing debate). Established in 1894, Lowell is among the oldest astronomical ... More

View of Dr. Herschel's forty feet telescope

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[Galileo offering his telescope to three women (possibly Urania and at...

Illus. in: Opere di Galileo Galilei .... Bologna : Per gli hh del Dozza, 1655-56 [v.1, 1656] Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C.... More

Josephus Daniels on U.S.S. Wyoming, looking through telescope

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[Using a street telescope, a newsboy glimpses Halley's Comet, which is...

Reproduction of drawing by Sidney H. Riesenberg. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1910 May 21, cover. Freitag, no. 2554. Published in: Halley's Comet: a bibliography / compiled by Ruth S. Freitag. Washington : Libra... More

MAN AT TELESCOPE - Public domain portrait photograph

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Lieut. Col. Huntington and Sergt. Major Goode looking for Spaniards at...

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Telescopes. Telescopes designed by Capt. R.L. Atkinson II

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Neck chamers for the artillery. A battery commander telescope expert c...

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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

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

Horn-rimmed spectacles - telescope

Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Medicine" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

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

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[Telescope?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

New York City views. Times Square, with telescope, and advertisements

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Observatory housing the Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory,...

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Observatory housing the Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory,...

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

[Page from 18th Century almanac: Astronomer looking at heavens through...

Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Matzenaner] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

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Telescope built in the Newtonian configuration with one axis of the mo...

A man standing next to a telescope on a tripod, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title information from R. Orr, 2015. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 19... More

[Union case manufactured by Littlefield, Parsons & Co. showing a young...

Case: Berg, no. 1-177. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, ... More

[Telescope?] - Public domain photograph

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[Reproduction of rough sketch by Isaac Newton showing a reflecting tel...

Illus. in: Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Cambridge [Eng.] : Published for the Royal Society at the University Press, 1959-77, v. 1. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology... 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

[Union case manufactured by Littlefield, Parsons & Co. showing a young...

Case: Berg, no. 1-177. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, ... More

The Lick telescope, length 57 feet, diameter of object glass 36 inches...

Print shows an interior view of the Lick Observatory with the Lick telescope mounted on a large stand and being manipulated by a man standing on the top level, with a man sitting on a small moveable platform be... More

[Zachary Taylor, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, in unifor...

Copyright by A.H. Ritchie. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Taylor, Zachary In uniform Half-length. NOS 12/96.

The Lawrence Lowell Telescope, built in 1928-29 at Lowell Observatory ...

The 13-inch astrograph was used by Clyde Tombaugh to discover Pluto, the planet (or dwarf planet, depending on one's position in an ongoing debate). Established in 1894, Lowell is among the oldest astronomical ... 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

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

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Dome of the 16-inch McAllister Telescope at Lowell Observatory in Flag...

Built in 1963 and originally owned by Northwestern University and used for public viewing, originally in Dearborn Observatory in Michigan, the scope was donated to Lowell in 1995. Established in 1894, Lowell Ob... More

[Union case manufactured by Littlefield, Parsons & Co. showing a young...

Case: Berg, no. 1-177. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, ... More

The Lick telescope, length 57 feet, diameter of object glass 36 inches...

Print shows an interior view of the Lick Observatory with the Lick telescope mounted on a large stand and being manipulated by a man standing on the top level, with a man sitting on a small moveable platform be... More

Nabli︠u︡denīe solnechnago zatmi︠e︡nīi︠a︡ 1/I 1907 g. bliz st. Cherni︠a...

Nine people using two telescopes to view an eclipse from a snow-covered mountain.

Whaling station on California coast [with insert of man on rock lookin...

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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.

[Telescope?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Carl Sagan with the planets

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[Union case manufactured by Littlefield, Parsons & Co. showing a young...

Case: Berg, no. 1-177. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, ... More

Nabli︠u︡denīe solnechnago zatmi︠e︡nīi︠a︡ 1/I 1907 g. bliz st. Cherni︠a...

Nine people using two telescopes to view an eclipse from a snow-covered mountain.

Nabli︠u︡denīe solnechnago zatmi︠e︡nīi︠a︡ 1/I 1907 g. bliz st. Cherni︠a...

Nine people using two telescopes to view an eclipse from a snow-covered mountain.

U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows a man looking through large telescope at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Copyright by Waldon Fawcett.

The Clark Telescope, built in 1896, at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff...

Commissioned in 1895 by the obsevatory's founder, Percival Lowell, the firm of Alvan Clark & Sons of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, built the 24-inch (61-centimetre) aperture f/11.3 refractor telescope. Since it... More

Observatory housing the Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory,...

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

An old photo of a boy looking through a telescope. Office of War Infor...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[Seven unidentified officers and soldiers in Union uniforms and one of...

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Two of the star-and sun-gazing structures at the McDonald Observatory,...

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

Radio telescope and an outbuilding at the National Radio Astronomy Obs...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A radio telescope has several main parts: a dish and antenna, a receiver, a detector, and an analyzer. It collects radio signals from... More

[Article (untitled), The Religious Telescope, 23 December 1908]

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

Josephus Daniels on U.S.S. Wyoming, looking through telescope

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Copy. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the Nation... More

The 16-inch McAllister Telescope at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, A...

Built in 1963 and originally owned by Northwestern University and used for public viewing, originally in Dearborn \rObservatory in Michigan, the scope was donated to Lowell in 1995. Established in 1894, Lowell ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Nabli︠u︡denīe solnechnago zatmi︠e︡nīi︠a︡ 1I 1...

Nine people using two telescopes to view an eclipse from a snow-covered mountain. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photogr... More

[Eldad Holmes, New York City merchant, half-length portrait, seated ho...

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Some of the array of astronomical observatories on Kitt Peak of the Qu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With 23 optical and two radio telescopes, this national observatory is the largest, most diverse gathering of astronomical instruments... More

[Article (untitled), The Religious Telescope, 23 December 1908]

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

MAN AT TELESCOPE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A black and white photo of a man looking through a telescope, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date ... More

Telescope built in the Newtonian configuration with one axis of mount ...

A black and white photo of a man looking through a telescope, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title information from R. Orr, 2015. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & ... More

Dome of the Clark Telescope, built in 1896 at Lowell Observatory in Fl...

Commissioned in 1895 by the obsevatory's founder, Percival Lowell, the firm of Alvan Clark & Sons of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, built the 24-inch (61-centimetre) aperture f/11.3 refractor telescope. Since it... More

[Union case manufactured by Littlefield, Parsons & Co. showing a young...

Case: Berg, no. 1-177. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, ... More

Seymour at home. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Horatio Seymour, 1810-1886, full length portrait, standing, facing right with telescope. American politician. Photo copyrighted by Wm. Kurtz. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption... More

Some of the array of astronomical observatories on Kitt Peak of the Qu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With 23 optical and two radio telescopes, this national observatory is the largest, most diverse gathering of astronomical instruments... More

[Seven unidentified officers and soldiers in Union uniforms and one of...

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Hiram Paulding to John G. Nicolay, Tuesday, April 30, 1861 (Sends tel...

Lieut. Col. Huntington and Sergt. Major Goode looking for Spaniards at...

Attribution to Hart based on negatives with similar numbers. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021509. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, Amer... More

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

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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Nabli︠u︡denīe solnechnago zatmi︠e︡nīi︠a︡ 1I 1...

Nine people using two telescopes to view an eclipse from a snow-covered mountain. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photogr... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Nabli︠u︡denīe solnechnago zatmi︠e︡nīi︠a︡ 1I 1...

Nine people using two telescopes to view an eclipse from a snow-covered mountain. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photogr... More

[Article (untitled), The Religious Telescope, 23 December 1908]

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

The great comet of 1881, observed on the night of June 25-26, at 1h. 2...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Charles Scribner's Sons, copyright claimant. Trouv... More

MAYFLOWER, U.S.S. SAILOR LOOKING THROUGH TELESCOPE ON MAYFLOWER

A man in a sailor's uniform on a boat, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General i... More

Dome of the Clark Telescope, built in 1896 at Lowell Observatory in Fl...

Commissioned in 1895 by the obsevatory's founder, Percival Lowell, the firm of Alvan Clark & Sons of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, built the 24-inch (61-centimetre) aperture f/11.3 refractor telescope. Since it... 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