telescopes

Sagittarius and Corona Australis, Microscopium, and Telescopium / Sidy...

Astronomical chart showing the centaur Sagittarius with bow and arrow, also shows a laural wreath, a telescope, and a microscope forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 24. Exhibited: ... More

Customer: Sakes alive, Carline! yo' orter see how brilliant it am : if...

"After sketch by D.J. Murphy." (DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "An Astronomical Observation," Harper's bazaar, 19:444 (July 2, 1886).

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

[Sketches of the Signal Corps during the American Civil War]

Preliminary study for DRWG/US Waud (W.), no. 12 (A size). Sketch of civilian eating from plate upper left. Title devised. Two floor plans for fortress and building on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919... More

Awaiting the absent, autochrome color photo

Title from jacket. Photograph of a painting possibly by Charles Stanley Reinhart; cf. CAI - C - Reinhart 36. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 050397. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Fort Myer, Virginia. A sergeant at Fort Myer, Virginia demonstrates a ...

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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

We're five minutes out! : Evarts, am I crazy? am I talking straight?

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Man Who Rocked the Earth" by Arthur Train, Saturday evening post, 187:5 (Nov. 14, 1914).

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

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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

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

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

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

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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.

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

A sub-marine astronomer - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0094). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as comic in: Harper's bazaar, 30:1000 (Nov. 27, 1897).

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

[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

The journey - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration depicts a young boy absorbed in watching the scenery from his seat in a railway car for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody entitled "The Little Past." The poems relate experiences of ch... More

The journey - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration depicts a young boy absorbed in watching the scenery from his seat in a railway car for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody entitled "The Little Past." The poems relate experiences of ch... More

A sub-marine astronomer - Public domain dedication image

(DLC/PP-1933:0094). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as comic in: Harper's bazaar, 30:1000 (Nov. 27, 1897).

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

Ulysses passing Coney Island - Public domain dedication image

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Modern mythology" by Metcalfe, Life magazine.

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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The king of Brobdingnag and Gulliver

King George III in military uniform, holds a tiny Napoleon in the palm of his hand while inspecting him with a spy-glass.

Astronomer (to prospective customer): Laze an Gemlen, nows de time to ...

(DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "An Astronomical observation," Harper's bazaar, 19:444 (July 2, 1886).

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

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

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

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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

The journey - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration depicts a young boy absorbed in watching the scenery from his seat in a railway car for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody entitled "The Little Past." The poems relate experiences of ch... More

[Sketches of the Signal Corps during the American Civil War]

Preliminary study for DRWG/US Waud (W.), no. 12 (A size). Sketch of civilian eating from plate upper left. Title devised. Two floor plans for fortress and building on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919... More

[Diagram of experiment with prisms that led Newton to conclude light i...

Illus. and text in: A letter ... containing his new theory about light and colors / Isaac Newton. In Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions, vol. 6, Feb. 1672. Published in: The tradition of scienc... More

[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

Gokakoku jinbutsu zue - Orandakoku, Sadahide Utagawa

Japanese print shows a Dutch woman and man, the man stands in profile and holds a telescope. Includes untranslated text about Holland by Kanagaki Robun on recto. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engraving attri... More

The practical arithmetical series

42419 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Caxton Company, adver... More

[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

New York City views. Times Square, the telescope

Job and item titles devised. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Composite of astronomy equipment and components] / Henry Winkles scul...

Illus. in: Iconographic encyclopedia / Heck. 1851, v. 1, plate 15. Reference copy in LOT 7007.

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).

Puck's presidential possibilities. No. III, The czar out of a job / Da...

Print shows Thomas B. Reed standing on a low platform labeled "Maine", looking through a bent and crooked telescope, labeled "Presidential Aspirations", at the White House in the distance. A diminutive "Joe Man... More

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

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

Public domain photograph of street advertisement signs, downtown commercial district, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

The journey - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration depicts a young boy absorbed in watching the scenery from his seat in a railway car for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody entitled "The Little Past." The poems relate experiences of ch... More

The world-renowned Lick Observatory, on Mount Hamilton, California

Copyrighted for 1902 by Underwood & Underwood. No. 2. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 12, 1897

Allegheny College, Newton Memorial Observatory, North Main Street, Sou...

2013 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: At the dedication of the Newton Memorial Observatory on June 19, 1901, Dr. FM Bristol, a medical practitioner and pastor of the Metropolitan Church of Washin... More

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

Baron Bean. "So you've gone in for 'astronomy,' heh?"

Four-frame comic strip. The Baron asks a friend looking out a window with a telescope if he is interested in astronomy. The friend says he is, and that he has been looking at what others call Saturn. He insi... More

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

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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

Major General Robert Anderson of General Staff Regular Army Infantry i...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Jared A. Gendron, JG Autographs, Peabody, Massachusetts, September 2016. Forms part of... More

Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 21, 1897

[Sketches of the Signal Corps during the American Civil War]

Preliminary study for DRWG/US Waud (W.), no. 12 (A size). Sketch of civilian eating from plate upper left. Title devised. Two floor plans for fortress and building on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919... More

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

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 28, 1897

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

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

Major General Robert Anderson of General Staff Regular Army Infantry i...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Jared A. Gendron, JG Autographs, Peabody, Massachusetts, September 2016. Forms part of... More

Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 21, 1897

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 28, 1897

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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

[Awaiting the absent], autochrome color photo

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

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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

Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 28, 1897

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

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 28, 1897

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

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Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 21, 1897

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1898

Awaiting the absent - Public domain document scan of drawing

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Letter from Samuel P. Langley to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 10, 1897

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