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Matted & ready to pop into a standard frame: This interesting 8 in. x 10 in. photo. This is a contemporary reprint made directly from a high resolution digital scan of the vintage photograph. The piece is crisply printed on matte finish photo paper & placed in a white acid-free matte, ready to be popped into a standard 11 in. x 14 in.; frame, which can be bought anywhere locally. From the web: Shattuck Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned & operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The observatory's most notable director was Edwin Brant Frost, who went on to be the director of the Yerkes Observatory. Today, it is primarily used for instructional purposes, but is open for public observation of the stars on Friday evenings. For scientific work Dartmouth has shares in the MDM Observatory on Kitt Peak, Arizona, & the Southern African Large Telescope in South Africa. The observatory was built in 1854 for Ira Young, Professor of Natural Philosophy, to designs drawn up by his brother Ammi B. Young, & Boston architect G.J.F. Bryant, Young was then the supervising architect of the United States Treasury Department.[2] It is a small building with three wings & a two-story dome (20 foot diameter). Its foundations are granite blocks; the building itself is brick. It is notable as the oldest scientific building on campus. Its construction & equipment costs were covered by a gift of $7,000 by Dr. George C. Shattuck, Dartmouth class of 1803, who stipulated that the Trustees match the gift with an additional $4,000.[3] in 1955 the building was renovated & its original dome replaced, but otherwise the building remains substantially unaltered since its first construction. No rights are granted or implied other than for personal collectible use. Makes a terrific gift for the observatory, telescope, astronomy, Dartmouth College collector or other historic addition to your collection! pub places dir Matted Photograph | 8x10 - 1950 Dartmouth College, Shattuck Observatory, Hanover, Grafton County, Nh
