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Photograph

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Description:	Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses.

Postcard

Date:	1905
Description:	View across field towards the observatory. Caption reads: "Yerkes Observatory, Lake Geneva, Wis."

Photograph

Date:	1868
Description:	Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.

Photograph

Date:	1955
Description:	Interior portrait of a man sitting at a kitchen table adjusting his homemade telescope. His wife is washing dishes behind him. Open shelves on the wall dis...

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