Secretary Charles G. Abbot with Bolometric Apparatus
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1900
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 56, Folder: 5
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.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 56, Folder: 5
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1900
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North Carolina
A3590 or SA-1313
Color: Black and White; Size: 7.5w x 9h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print