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{??} Photograph (Lantern Slide, Panorama Format, for Use in Wood-Framed Slide): Star Maps, c.1920

Inventory Number 62275


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.62275

Item type
Object
Provenance
From the Oxford University Observatory.
Physical material
Glass
Paper(?) Tape
Paint
Dimensions
Height: 84mm Width: 137mm Depth: 3mm Weight: 103g
Inventory No
62275

Description

Possibly a slipping Slide, see inv. no. 65686.Two oblong pieces of glass are held together with blue tape at the top and bottom. Another strip of tape runs down one side of the slides. The glass plates have painted diagrams of the North and South Polar Maps, the Zenith Line of Greenwich and star constellations.