Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Photograph of the members of the Sumatra Eclipse Expedition in 1901: (l-r) Jewell, Eichelberger, Dr. Mitchell, Littell, Dr. Humphries, Peters, Professor Barnard, Dinwiddie, Paul A. Draper, Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (Aid Acting in Charge of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), later to become the Director of the SAO and Fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1928-1944), and Professor Skinner. The men are standing on a deck of a ship in a harbor, all wearing suits, ties, and hats.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005, Box 187, Folder: 1
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1901
- Standard number
- 94-12603
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Sumatra (Indonesia)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Secretaries
- Sumatra Eclipse Expedition, 1901
- Expeditions
- Observing (field) stations
- Draper, Paul A
- Skinner, Mr
- Observatories
- Solar eclipses
- Secretariats
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8156
