Photograph of the Moon
date: label: date made
content: 1865
name: label: maker
content: Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris
notes: label: Description
content: Lewis M. Rutherfurd built an observatory in the garden of his house in lower Manhattan in 1856, and installed a refracting telescope achromatized for the photographic rays. He took this remarkable lunar image in March 1865, three days after first quarter, and sent copies to astronomers in the United States and abroad.
label: Description
content: This example came from Princeton University. It is marked "Lewis M. Rutherfurd" and "N. Y. March 6, 1865." It measures 23⅞ inches high x 17½ inches wide.
label: Description
content: Ref: D. J. Warner, "Lewis M. Rutherfurd: Pioneer Astronomical Photographer and Spectroscopist," <i>Technology and Culture</i> 12 (1971): 190-216.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Princeton University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328883
label: catalog number
content: 328883
label: accession number
content: 277637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph of the Moon
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 25 1/2 in x 7/8 in; 49.53 cm x 64.77 cm x 2.2225 cm