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Map of Eclipse Expedition Sites

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For each eclipse between 1889 and 1932, the Lick Observatory, sent one or more astronomers to observe it along the path of totality (places where the moon's shadow will entirely eclipse the sun). Some passed close to home in California, and others required journeying much further afield.

These expeditions were often privately funded, allowing the Lick astronomers to choose locations that required time and expense to reach.

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  1. The Lick Observatory: Eclipse Expeditions Danielle Crawford

Contents of this tag:

  1. Workers making thatching for the instrument shelters, Flint Island, 1908.
  2. Inner Corona, photographed by W.H. Wright, Fryeburg, 1932
  3. 40 ft camera in Aswan, Egypt, 1905
  4. Working with a glass plate, Wallal, 1922
  5. Rehearsal of eclipse program, unknown photographer, Wallal, 1922
  6. Second view of 40 ft camera in Aswan, Egypt, 1905
  7. 40ft camera, Jeur, India, 1898
  8. Photograph of a sunspot, Charles Perrine, Lick Observatory, 1897
  9. Astronomer and equipment, unknown photographer, Thomaston, GA, 1900
  10. Chart of the 1889 eclipse, California
  11. Mrs Campbell sitting upon a turtle, Flint Island, 1922
  12. Eclipse camp, Wallal, 1922
  13. Women washing dishes, Wallal, 1922
  14. Mrs Campbell at the polar axis, Wallal, 1922
  15. Bartlett Springs eclipse site, photographer unknown, Bartlett Springs, CA, 1889
  16. Eclipse camp, Cartwright, 1905
  17. Page from Elizabeth Campbell's Russian Eclipse Album, 1914
  18. Loading equipment for Thomaston eclipse site, New Orleans, 1900
  19. Working at the base of the 40ft camera, Wallal, 1922
  20. 40ft camera at Goldendale, WA, 1918
  21. Prominences enlarged 13 times, taken by W.H. Wright, Fryeburg, 1932
  22. Site Plan, GA, 1900
  23. View of the Schaeberle Camera at Padang, 1901
  24. 40ft camera, Padang, Indonesia, 1901
  25. Equipment at Camptonville, CA, 1930
  26. 15ft Einstein Camera, Wallal, 1922
  27. Polar Axis, GA, 1900
  28. 40ft camera at Mina los Bronces, Chile, 1893
  29. Solar Corona, taken by J.M. Schaeberle, Chile, 1893
  30. 40ft camera at Thomaston, GA, 1900
  31. Einstein Plate, taken by W. W. Campbell, Wallal, 1922
  32. Equipment at site, Thomaston, GA, 1900
  33. Equipment on Mt Whitney, CA, 1909
  34. Wallal Eclipse, 1922
  35. Instruments in Fryeburg, ME, 1932
  36. Expedition marker, Wallal, 1922
  37. 40ft camera at Akkeshi Japan, 1896
  38. Eclipse camp, Flint Island, 1908
  39. Group on steamer for Wallal, 1922
  40. Hand drawn plan of the eclipse camp, Thomaston, GA, 1901
  41. Wallal Eclipse, 1922
  42. 40ft camera at Ensanada, Mexico, 1923
  43. Eclipse camp, Alhama de Aragon, Spain, 1905
  44. Corona Spectrograph in Fryeburg
  45. Chart of path of 1900 Solar Eclipse
  46. View of entire camp, Fryeburg, ME