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Repro ID: H5520
Title: A photoheliograph for Station B (Honolulu) of the Transit of Venus expedition of 1874.
Description: A photoheliograph set up in its portable hut ready to be shipped to Station B at Honolulu, one of the five camps of the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874. The Royal Observatory Greenwich organised the expeditions, and provided a photoheliograph for each of the five stations.
Creator: unknown
Date: 1874
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London. Cambridge University Library

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