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   Rutherfurd
   Lewis Morris
   L. M. R. ;
   
   
   1816 in Morrisania, New York
   1892
   Tranquility, New Jersey
   
   
   
   United States of America
   photographs of the sun & moon, reproduced, e.g., in P.A. Secchi / H. Schellen: Die Sonne, 1872; C.Flammarion: Les Terres du Ciel, 1874
   National Academy of Sciences (founding member since 1863); associate of the Royal Astronomical Society, London; trustee of Columbia Univ. 1858-84
   
   astronomical photography ;
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vogel_Moon.png ;
   www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4362131/ ; www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/rutherfurd-lewis.pdf ;
   Obit.: P.Tacchini in Memorie della Societa Degli Spettroscopisti Italiani 21(1893):100-1, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astron.Society 53 (1893): 229; Popular Science Monthly 42 (Jan. 1893); F.E. Harpham: The Rutherfurd photographs, Popular Astronomy 8 (1900): 129-136; John Krom Rees: The Rutherfurd Photographic Measures (New York 1906); Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences; Thomas 1997:196; R.Krauss: Hist.of Photography 2:303-9; B.Z. Jones & L.G. Boyd: The Harvard College Observatory (Cambridge, Mass. 1971); Omar Nasim: Handling the heavens, in Julia Bärnighausen et al.(eds.) Photo-Objects, Berlin 2019: 161-175, esp. pp. 10-11;
   pioneer of astro-photography, L.M.R. owned an observatory in New York City at 11th Street and 2nd Avenue where he experimented w. astronomical photography & spectroscopy
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