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[Earth and Moon.] 'Comparative dimensions of the Earth and Moon.'

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Image showing size of Earth (on left) compared to Moon (on right). Handwritten notes on tape surrounding image outlining comparitive diameters of Earth and Moon, and 'density compared with water' of the Sun, Earth, and Moon. Tape covers original title exposed on the glass plate 'Comparative dimensions of the Earth and Moon.'

Last Update: 11 May 2023

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235686 (Presto content ID)

PH-1984-1-LS78-2-12 (Reference Number)

23 (Photographer's number)

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Photography

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[Earth and Moon.] 'Comparative dimensions of the Earth and Moon.' — No Known Copyright Restrictions

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[Earth and Moon.] 'Comparative dimensions of the Earth and Moon.'

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Clement Wragge (Photographer)

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1890-1922

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45mm x 67mm (image)

83mm x 81mm (support)

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Clement Lindley Wragge

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Grandchild

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C. L. Wragge Lantern Slides

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glass/inorganic material

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Gelatin silver transparency

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Astronomy/Library of Congress subject headings

Moon

Outer space

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Astronomy--Research/Library of Congress subject headings

Astronomy--Study and teaching/Library of Congress subject headings

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lantern slides/photographs/AAT Visual Works

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RECTO

handwritten in black ink on orange tape top of plate 'Earth and Moon' handwritten in ink on orange tape at base of plate 'Sun's density compared with water

1.4

[Earth's?] "" 5.6

Moon's "" 3.5'

handwritten in ink on white tape at top of plate 'Dia:Moon 2.160""

Earth 9.918""'

Handwritten in black ink on white tape lower right corner '23'

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In reverse at base of plate 'Comparative dimensions of the Earth and Moon.'

[Keywords: Astronomy, Moon, Outer space, Space(Art), Astronomy--Charts,diagrams,etc., Astronomy--Research, Astronomy--Study and teaching, Comparing Moon and Earth]

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Transferred from Wragge family papers. [Ref. MS-1213]

Last Update

11 May 2023

[Earth and Moon.] 'Comparative dimensions of the Earth and Moon.'

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