Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- South Yard
- Arts and Industries Building
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- An image of a heliostat, a sophisticatedly mounted motor driven single flat mirror that take sunlight and feeds it into one of the APO buildings for analysis used by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is inside the wooden fence, which surrounds the Observatory located in the South Yard. The west side of the Arts and Industries Building is visible in the background.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 37A, Folder: 8
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1900
- Standard number
- 12499 or AI-12499
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exterior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Instruments
- Observatories
- Astrophysics
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10644
