Illustrated birds in green, yellow, and orange, perched on tree branches

The Birds of America by John James Audubon

A title page’s woodcut illustration depicting a confrontation. An attending friar has offered a Catholic breviary to Atahualpa, who hurls the religious book to the ground in either confusion or defiance.

La conquista del Perú

Black-and-white transparency showing a close-up of a portion of the moons cratered surface, its horizon curving in the upper right corner of the image

Transparency of the moon (from negatives made at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California)
Gelatin silver transparency on glass, ca. 1896
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

Transparency of the moon (from negatives made at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California)

This glass plate transparency is one of the most detailed photographic depictions of the moon produced in the 19th century. Created by the Lick Observatory at the University of California using its 36-inch equatorial refractor telescope, this photograph and many others were intended for publication in Edward S. Holden’s Observatory Atlas of the Moon, one of several contemporaneous attempts to create a detailed lunar atlas using the newest photographic and print production technologies. After issuing the 19th of a planned 60 plates, Holden realized his publication lagged behind others and halted production. He presented this and another glass plate transparency to the Library.

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