Keywords: outdoor Lot 7360-6: U.S. Navy Expedition to observe the 1889 solar eclipse from Africa. USS Pensacola Marines on watch. Poem by “a sailor” reads, “At last we had almost finished, and expected a little rest, for those astronomers are hard enough / to work with at the best.” Photographed by Herman S. Davis, who was the assistant astronomer of the expedition. (8/21/2015). Lot 7360-6: U.S. Navy Expedition to observe the 1889 solar eclipse from Africa. USS Pensacola Marines on watch. Poem by “a sailor” reads, “At last we had almost finished, and expected a little rest, for those astronomers are hard enough / to work with at the best.” Photographed by Herman S. Davis, who was the assistant astronomer of the expedition. (8/21/2015). |