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Visual Materials
The great comet of 1881
- Description
- Image of a comet streaking through a starry night sky as observed by E. L. Trouvelot of the Observatory at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; observatory building in foreground at left.
- Date
- ©1881
- Call number
- priJLC_SCI_002976
- Provenance
- This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
