Photographic negatives, ca. 1886-ca. 1929.

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Photographic negatives, ca. 1886-ca. 1929.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78025001

Collection includes negatives of the original Allegheny Observatory (exterior and interior views); the second Allegheny Observatory (exterior and interior views); equipment; the Thaw and other telescopes; observations; individual and group photos of people associated with the observatory; portraits of John A. Brashear; two boxes of personal photos by Frank C. Jordan of family and friends; astronomical observatories and other views in Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, and the West.

320 items.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Allegheny Observatory

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The appearance of the comet known as "Donati's Comet", discovered in Florence by Giovanni Donati on June 2, 1858, gave the initial stimulus to the founding of the observatory. Interest in the comets appearance caused a group of men (professional and business) to form the Allegheny Telescope Association. This group, among whom the most prominent were Professor Louis Bradley, Josiah King and Harvey Childs, met in Bradley's home on February 15, 1858, and resolved not only to found the A.T.A. but al...