Hayden Planetarium-Grace Peruvian Eclipse Expedition (1937)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
D. Owen Stephens collection, 1937 May 14-1937 June 8.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .S747
Dates:
1937 - 1937
The Peruvian Eclipse Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 253
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Hayden Planetarium-Grace Peruvian Eclipse Expedition, 1937. Charles H. Coles, head of the AMNH photographic department, was the official photographer and seized the opportunity to make this film on his own time. George Clyde Fisher, curator of astronomy at the AMNH-Hayden Planetarium, led the expedition. The film opens with a train traveling up the Peruvian Andes toward the summit camp and views of the Andes. The staff visits the Huancayo market where the natives sell...
Dates:
1937
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192