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Smyth, Charles Piazzi
English (b. Italy, 1819-1900)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Close view of Alta Vista observing station from the East
BOOK TITLE: "Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence above the Clouds", London, Lovell Reeve Publ., 1858

1858
PUBLISHER: Reeve, Lovell
albumen print
6.0 x 7.0 cm. (each, arched top)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
95:0152:0011

INSCRIPTION: printed on the mount on the top of image: "Photo-Stereograph 11" printed below image: "Close view of Alta Vista observing station from the East, altitude 10.702 feet, p. 284" Printed by A.J. Melhuisch under the superintendence of James Glaisher Esq.r F.R.S. and published by Lovell Reeve"

NOTES: Catalogued 12/96, MAP. One plate (no. 15) is missing in this copy of the book. See RB DP 302 349 56 for a complete copy.

SUBJECT: landscape, rocks / Alta Vista

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