Charles Hervey Townshend with sextant on board yacht, 1890

albumen print

PHOTOGRAPHS
USA, CT, New London
October 1890
5.00 x 4.00 x 0

Albumen print (circular image) mounted on white card with gold beveled edges; identified on back, handwritten in pencil "Chas Hervey Townshend/ on Board Yacht "[?]"/ New London Harbor/ Oct 1890/ No 1"; photograph shows Capt. Charles Hervey Townshend of New Haven, CT, standing on deck taking sun sight with full circle; in 1888,Townshend patented the reflecting circle for measuring the angles between three objects simultaneously.


UNIDENTIFIED yacht
1950.825

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