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

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

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