Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Charles Greeley Abbot, then Acting Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), pictured with bolometric apparatus, was one of a team of Smithsonian scientists who traveled to Wadesboro, North Carolina, to study an eclipse of the sun in 1900. Abbot later became director of the SAO and Fifth Secretary (1928-1944) of the Smithsonian.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 56, Folder: 5
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1900
- Standard number
- A3590 or SA-1313
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 7.5w x 9h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Apparatus
- Astronomy
- Expeditions
- Secretaries
- Solar Research
- Bolometric Apparatus
- Instruments
- Solar eclipses
- North Carolina
- Secretariats
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9223
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