Engraving of the Tucson Meteorite
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Date: 1886
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Information File, Box 13, Folder: Smithsonian Guide Books, 1886 (Brentano Bros.)
Illustration (Fig. 2) in "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington" of the Tucson meteorite, weighing 1,400 pounds, which was first discovered in Sonora, Mexico, and transported as far as Presidio, near Tucson, in Arizona, where it was left. It was taken into Tucson and was used as a kind of anvil.
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From "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington." New York: Brentano Brothers, 1886. Page 14-15
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Information File, Box 13, Folder: Smithsonian Guide Books, 1886 (Brentano Bros.)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1886
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Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print