- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- George Higgs
- 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.
- 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.
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