View of full moon., Title on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount within decorative ribbons flowing from shields. Also printed on verso with four vignettes of two medals, the Vienna Medal of Merit and the American Institute of New York, awarded to Charles Bierstadt in 1873., Photographer's blind stamp included twice on the mount. Stamp consists of his initials, C.B., within an art palette., Printed description and advertisement of stereograph series assortments by Bierstadt on verso under imprint., Stamped on verso: Kean Archives, Phila., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Manuel Kean., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bierstadt relocated to Niagara Falls, New York from New Bedford, Massachusetts ca. 1863 and opened his own photographic studio.
Creator
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882, photographer
Date
[photographed ca. 1863, printed ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bierstadt - Views [P.8558]
Glass negative showing an illustration of sunspots hanging in the Strawbridge Memorial Observatory. The illustration is entitled "Group of Sun Spots and Veiled Spots. Observed June 17th 1875 at 7h 30 in A.m. Copyright 1881 by Charles Scribner Sons." The Strawbridge Memorial Observatory was built at Haverford College (founded 1833) in 1854. Thomas Kimber Jr. provided funds for the first telescope, and the building was doubled in 1883 for a new ten-inch refracting telescope., Time: 5:00 PM, Light: Strong sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
April 14, 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.534]
