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Esashi, Hokkaido eclipse photographs

 Collection — manuscript box: 96 - Folder 1
Identifier: 8843

Content Description

A collection of 24 photographs capturing various groups that travelled to Esashi, Hokkaido, to view solar eclipses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the photographs feature a woman who is almost certainly Zou Yixin (1911-1997), a Chinese astronomer and professor at Sun Yat-sen University who is known to have visited Easashi as part of the Chinese team observing the eclipse on June 19, 1936. This team and a team from the Kwasan Observatory at the Graduate School of Science of Kyoto University are known to have observed the eclipse at Esashi, where the Amherst Expedition headed by Professor David Todd observed an eclipse on August 9, 1896. Several photographs of this earlier expedition are also included.

Dates

  • 1896, 1936

Extent

24 photographs

Language of Materials

English

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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