[Heliogravure plates in Photographs of nebulae and clusters made with the Crossley reflector]

Item Information

Title:
[Heliogravure plates in Photographs of nebulae and clusters made with the Crossley reflector]
Description:
"70 "heliogravure" plates of photographs of the heavens taken between 1898 and 1900. The Photogravure and Color Company, New York did the plates."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 139
Contributor:
Keeler, James Edward, 1857-1900. Photographs of nebulae and clusters made with the Crossley reflector
Contributor:
Photogravure & Color Co
Date:
1908
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photogravures
Heliogravures
Location:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Collection (local):
David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Subjects:
Nebulae
Stars--Clusters
Astronomical photography
Crossley reflector
Orion Nebula
Andromeda Nebula
Pleiades
Crab Nebula
Extent:
70 photomechanical prints : heliogravures ; 29 x 22.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll1,3023
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
[Sacramento : W.W. Shannon, superintendent of state printing, 1908]
Language:
English
Notes:
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Special note tipped in before front: Plates 10 and 12 exhibit rings around some of the stars which have been accentuated due to subsequent photographic processes and steel engraving -- In: Photographs of nebulae and clusters made with the Crossley reflector / by James Edward Keeler, director of the Lick Observatory, 1898-1900. [Sacramento : W.W. Shannon, superintendent of state printing, 1908] -- Title supplied by cataloger
Identifier:
D.A.H.Cat., 1908:2
NE2698 K26p