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Repro ID: H5511
Title: The Transit of Venus: the huts at Station B, Honolulu.
Description: Two of the astronomers at Station B in Honolulu, one of the five camps of the Transit of Venus expeditions, organised by the Royal Observatory in 1874. The portable huts were brought to house the transit instrument and the photography apparatus.
Creator: unknown
Date: 1874
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London. Cambridge University Library

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