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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1932
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1986.0348.001

MANUFACTURER: SIMPSON, WILLIBERT
MODEL: TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN (1932)
LOCATION: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 2
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: WOODEN PICTURE FRAME/ GLASS/ DRAWINGS ON PAPER.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 49.7 cm
Width: 19.0 cm
Height: 1.2 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Astronomy
Category: Commemorative
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: SIMPSON
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Ottawa

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Quebec
Period: Unknown
Canada: DOCUMENTS TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN, AUGUST 31, 1932, AS SEEN FROM TOWNSHIP OF ACTON, QUE.
Function: Unknown
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: FRAMED DRAWING BEARS TITLE CAPTION: 'TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN/ 1932, August 31/ As seen at N. part of Lot 32, Range 3, Township of Acton/ Acton-Vale, Que.'/ first picture: "First view, as clouds cleared away'/ second: ‘½ phase. 2.50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time'/ third: ‘3/4 phase. 3.02 p.m. Landscape getting grey'/ fourth: ‘As at 3.11 p.m. Grayness getting darker'/ fifth: ‘Totality immanent. Jupiter and stars seen. Cusps of Sun followed by appearance like red to ‘The Sputtering of a Train of gun power'/ Ominous black shadow of totality approaching from N.W.'/ sixth: ‘Totality streamer and corona at upper left were of a pearly white. Corona shaded to reddish-yellow at upper right, then to a pronounced yellowish-red at lower right, gradually merging, three reddish-yellow, back to pearly white of the wisp of the streamer at upper left'/ ‘Drawn as observed, by Willibert Simpson, 487 Cambridge Street, Ottawa, Canada'. TEXT APPEARS AS HANDWRITTEN
Missing: N/A
Finish: BLACK PAINTED WOOD/ TRANSPARENT GLASS/ WHITE PAPER/ BLACK & WHITE DRAWING
Decoration: N/A

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SIMPSON, WILLIBERT, Drawing, circa 1932, Artifact no. 1986.0348, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1986.0348.001/

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