Twelve Photographs of the Moon

Austin Augustus Turner American
After Warren de la Rue British
Publisher D. Appleton & Co. American

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In addition to garnering the attention of the scientific community, De La Rue’s astronomical pictures reached a wider public. Turner, a studio photographer in New York, rephotographed De La Rue’s views of the moon’s phases, selling the pirated images as a boxed set of twelve cartes de visite.

Twelve Photographs of the Moon, Austin Augustus Turner (American, ca. 1813–1866), Albumen silver prints

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2014.753.1–.12