Lewis Morris Rutherfurd photographs, 1850s-1870s

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Series I: Glass Plate Negatives, 1850s-1870s

CLOSED. This series is closed until a project to stabilize and then digitize the slides is completed.

This series consists of 808 glass-plate negative slides, stored in 40 wooden boxes. The photographs are of astronomical subjects, taken by Rutherfurd from the 1850s through the 1870s.