Crystallographic picture of the moon / taken by John A. Whipple, with the aid of the large telescope of the observatory at Cambridge, Mass.

Cambridge, Mass. : John A. Whipple, [1853?]

1 photographic print : b & w ; 21.9 x 20.6 cm. on mount 36.7 x 29.8 cm.

Manuscript caption on mount.

Gift of Charles William Bradley, 1853.

John Adams Whipple, photographer and an early American promoter of the glass negative/paper positive process, called the process crystalotypy because of the crystal clear transparency of the glass negatives. He worked with the Harvard College Observatory's fifteen-inch refracting telescope, and by 1851 had obtained a daguerreotype of the moon, which won a gold medal at the Crystal Palace Exhibition. In 1853 he made crystalotypes of his daguerreotypes of the moon.

Photographic print of two-thirds of moon face, the rest in shadow.

English

June 01, 2002

John Adams Whipple, Crystallographic Picture of the Moon. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

John Adams Whipple, Crystallographic Picture of the Moon. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Moon > Pictorial works.

Photographic prints.