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Title: The great comet of 1881
Creator: Trouvelot, E. L., artist
Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.), printer
Charles Scribner’s Sons, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1881
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a comet streaking through a starry night sky as observed by E. L. Trouvelot of the Observatory at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; observatory building in foreground at left.
Printer supplied by cataloger based on survey of Armstrong & Co. by Boston Public Library. "Plate XI."--text, bottom left margin. "Copyright 1881 by Charles Scribner's Sons."--text, bottom center margin. "Observed on the Night of June 25-26 at 1h. 30m. A.M."--text, bottom center margin. "E.L. Trouvelot"--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 83.19 x 65.41 cm (32 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_SCI_002976
443060
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4858
Language: English
Subject: Astronomy--Pictorial works
Comets--Pictorial works
Observatories--Pictorial works
Stars--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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