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Lunar Transparency
Henry Draper American
Not on view
This enlarged photograph, sandwiched between panes of glass in a wood frame, would have been set before a window or flaming hearth to illuminate the image from behind. Like his father, John William Draper, who made the first successful lunar daguerreotype, Henry Draper was a physician and a pioneer of astronomical photography. After building an observatory at his family’s estate in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the younger Draper produced this and other highly detailed images of the moon.
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