Number of Pages
21
Date
1869

Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) describes his experience in photographing the solar eclipse in Ottumwa, Iowa on August 7, 1869 for the Evangelical Quarterly Review. "Never before had such an event promised so much of a revelation," Dr. Himes explains.

Time Period
Location
MC 2000.1, B25, F20
Origin
Gift of Mary Himes Vale and Sarah Vale Rush
"Total Eclipse of the Sun," by Charles F. Himes