Photograph of the Moon
date: label: date made
content: 1860s
name: label: maker
content: Draper, Henry
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Draper (1837-1882) was a young physician who, in the early 1860s, built a large reflecting telescope, installed it in an observatory at his parents’ house in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and took a series of amazing images of the moon. This example is on opaque glass, with the emulsion side exposed, and is slightly different from the one that was printed and widely distributed.
label: Description
content: Ref: George F. Barker, “Memoir of Henry Draper,” <i>Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences</i> 3 (1888), pp. 81-139.
label: Description
content: Henry Draper, <i>On the Construction of a Silvered-Glass Telescope, Fifteen and a Half Inches in Aperture and Its Uses in Celestial Photography</i> (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1865).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Hastings-on-Hudson
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hastings Historical Society
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0099.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0099
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0099.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in enclosure: 24 in x 17 in x 1 7/8 in; 60.96 cm x 43.18 cm x 4.7625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 60 cm x 39.1 cm x 3.2 cm; 23 5/8 in x 15 13/32 in x 1 1/4 in