Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection
Caroline Ellen Furness in the Vassar College Observatory
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1910s
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Caroline Furness, Astronomy Professor, in the observatory with Maria Mitchell's twelve inch Henry Fitz telescope. The telescope was later donated to the Smithsonian Institution
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