Two volumes. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927
51 plates, 50 charts and tables. Vol. I: 10.75 x 9.75 inches; Vol. II: 10.75 x 10.5 inches
A photographic Atlas of regions of the Milky Way, undertaken and directed by Edward Emerson Barnard (1857-1923), Professor of Practical Astronomy at the University of Chicago and Astronomer at the Yerkes Observatory there from 1895 until his death. The Atlas was published after Barnard's death, edited by Edwin B. Frost, the Observatory's Director and Mary R. Calvert, Assistant. Sections of the night sky appear in photographs with descriptions in Volume I; then those same areas are drawn in charts, with accompanying tables, in Volume II.
This work is Publication No. 247 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Ex libris Roy K. Marshall, astronomer. Marshall worked at the Alder Planetarium in Chicago, and the Yerkes Observatory. He was the Director of the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and the first Director in 1949 of the newly opened Morehead Planetarium at UNC Chapel Hill. Marshall ordered this Atlas from the Carnegie Instution of Washington in January, 1929. The bill of sale is affixed inside the back cover of Volume I.
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