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This is a stereoscopic card featuring two identical images of the full moon, showcasing its craters and surface texture in detail. The card is on a beige background with inscriptions mentioning the photographer, Prof. H. Draper, and the publisher, C. Bierstadt, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. It notes that the negatives were taken with a silvered glass telescope, capturing the selenographic features of the moon.
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This is a stereoscopic card featuring two identical images of the full moon, showcasing its craters and surface texture in detail. The card is on a beige background with inscriptions mentioning the photographer, Prof. H. Draper, and the publisher, C. Bierstadt, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. It notes that the negatives were taken with a silvered glass telescope, capturing the selenographic features of the moon.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

"Full Moon"

Henry Draper

Date
1860
Medium
stereoscopic albumen silver print
Dimensions
image (each): 7.9 × 7.4 cm (3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.) sheet: 7.9 × 14.8 cm (3 1/8 × 5 13/16 in.) mount: 8.8 × 17.8 cm (3 7/16 × 7 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2018.21.5
Credit line
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • albumen silver print
  • Moon
  • Astronomy
  • Science
  • outer space
  • Nature
  • history
  • Stereograph
Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Inscription

lower left and right in negative: FULL MOON. / FROM NEGATIVES TAKEN BY PROF. H. DRAPER, / WITH HIS SILVERED GLASS TELESCOPE. / PUBLISHED BY C. BIERSTADT, NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.; along left edge of mount printed in black ink: C. Bierstadt, Publisher / Niagara Falls, N.Y.; along right edge: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, / Liverpool, New York, -Chicago, -Toronto, -Ottawa, Kas.-El Paso, Tex.

NGA object ID 213440. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.