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Published Portfolio of Photographs (Gelatine Prints) Entitled 'Photographic Atlas of the Normal Solar Spectrum', by George Higgs, 1896

Inventory Number 12949


Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Department of Astrophysics, Oxford, in 1983. This copy originally belonged to R. B. Clifton.
Primary inscriptions
Title on front of portfolio.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Cloth
Object type
Photograph
Dimensions
Height: 280mm Width: 182mm Depth: 19mm
Inventory No
12949
Accession Number
1983-49/1

Description

Small portfolio bound in brown cloth, with a linen band. George Higgs, Photographic Atlas of the Normal Solar Spectrum. Contains a series of spectrum photographs, mounted on thin card, in three envelopes addressed to Professor Clifton, the third postmarked 1896, together with a printed pamphlet, George Higgs, 'The Photographic Normal Solar Spectrum ... Consecutive Wave-Length Edition', dated Liverpool, December 1896. Another copy, with two pamphlets, an offprint, and manuscript additions, is 12950.