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Scientific expeditions -- History -- 19th century -- Sources

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American scientific expedition photograph albums

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Identifier: M343
Abstract Two photograph albums, compiled by Erasmus D. Preston, documenting U.S. government sponsored expeditions (1883 and 1889) to track solar eclipses. The 1883 album contains 57 albumen photographs depicting the expedition's stops during the trip to and from the Pacific atoll Caroline Island. The 1889 expedition album contains 79 albumen photographs that document travel aboard the USS Pensacola to the west coast of Africa and to Cape Town and the Kimberly Diamond Mines in South Africa, and then...
Dates: 1883-1889