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Venus crossing the face of the Sun, in a telescopic image recorded on a photographic plate on Dec. 6, 1882. This record is one of only 11 surviving glass plates from the eight expeditions outfitted by the United States government to observe and photograph the 1882 transit of Venus from different locations in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The grid and characters superposed on the Sun’s image are for identification and measurement.
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