Image / "Sol's Clock" sundial, Washington Park, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago

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Title: "Sol's Clock" sundial, Washington Park, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
Creator: Robinson, Frank Day
Contributor: Latta, Frank Forrest, 1892-
Date Created and/or Issued: 1893
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
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Description: A view of "Sol's Clock", a sundial made out of plants, at Washington Park for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The sundial is on the side of a slight incline, with the numbers arranged in an arch and a tilted pole in the center.
Date supplied by cataloger, based on the year of the Exposition. One of forty-eight glass plate negatives originally housed together with a note by Latta: "Frank Robinson Merced Area Misc. Unidentified."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 Photograph : glass negative ; plate 11 x 13 cm
Identifier: mssLatta Skyfarming
466448
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/14670
Subject: Sundials
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--Photographs
Place: Chicago (Ill.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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