[Photograph of the solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, taken at West Point] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Photograph of the solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, taken at West Point], 1854 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/56/568bac5d0452-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Photograph of the solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, taken at West Point] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Photograph of the solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, taken at West Point]
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This print shows the solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, recorded at West Point, the U.S. Military Academy on the Hudson River in New York. It is one of the plates from Bartlett's series of photographs of that eclipse, and the number 16 in its notes places it within that set. Photographing an eclipse in the 1850s meant working with slow wet-collodion and daguerreotype processes and very short windows of time, so each plate captured a brief stage of the sun's partial phases. The series stands among the early attempts to use photography as a scientific record of celestial events.
| Created / published | 1854 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Photographic prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Bartlett's photographs of solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, taken at West Point, no. 16. |
| Subjects | Eclipses--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,282 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193597 |
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