Canada de las Uvas, or Tejon Pass in Sierra Nevada, California, 1690 miles west of Missouri River.
A few nice sky images I found:
Canada de las Uvas, or Tejon Pass in Sierra Nevada, California, 1690 miles west of Missouri River.
Image by SMU Central University Libraries
Title: Canada de las Uvas, or Tejon Pass in Sierra Nevada, California, 1690 miles west of Missouri River.
Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date: ca. 1868
Part Of: Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad: route of the 35th parallel
Description: This is plate 106 in a series of views by Alexander Gardner made in 1867 and 1868 starting in St. Louis, Missouri through Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona to San Francisco, California. Series made for the Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division later renamed the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Gardner accompanied the survey party seeking the best southern route for the railroad going through Kansas along the old Santa Fe Trail south to Albuquerque, then west along the 35th parallel to the Tehachapi Pass before heading north to San Francisco. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, soldiers, Native Americans, other people, forts, vegetation, geological formations, rivers, plains, mountain ranges, and railroad construction. The series is significant as the earliest comprehensive U.S. western landscape survey.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: albumen; 15 x 20.3 cm. on 30.3 x 45.7 cm. mount
Form/Genre: Photographic prints; Albumen prints; Landscape photographs; Portfolios
File: ag1982_0214x_106_opt.jpg
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Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff were responsible for collecting and duplicating images brought back by scientists and curators traveling on business in other cities throughout the world, many of which often described the structures of other museums.
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie’s duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum’s installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie’s documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution’s art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Culture: American
Date: 1890
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=2148&q=RU95_Box76_094
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) – Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.
Accession number: RU95_Box76_094
Centaurus A: Jet Power and Black Hole Assortment Revealed in New Chandra Image
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: In a long Chandra exposure lasting over seven days, Centaurus A reveals the effects of the supermassive black hole at its center. Opposing jets of high-energy particles are seen extending to the outer reaches of the galaxy, and numerous smaller black holes in binary star systems are also visible. In this image, low-energy X-rays are colored red, intermediate-energy X-rays are green, and the highest-energy X-rays detected by Chandra are blue. The dark green and blue bands running almost perpendicular to the jet are dust lanes that absorb X-rays, created when Centaurus A merged with another galaxy perhaps 100 million years ago.
Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Medium: Chandra telescope x-ray
Date: 2008
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5341
Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Gift line: NASA/CXC/SAO
Accession number: centaurusa
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