"The Full Moon. Yerkes Observatory."

after 1897

Keystone View Company

Associated Names
Keystone View Company

Artist, American, 1892 - 1963

This is a photograph of a stereoscopic image capturing the full moon. The photograph features two side-by-side images of the full moon, part of a stereoscopic card designed to give a 3D effect when viewed with a stereoscope. The moon appears in great detail, showcasing its cratered surface and varying shades from light to dark, giving depth to the lunar features. The card is labeled with information identifying the source as the Keystone View Company and indicates it is from the Yerkes Observatory.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stereoscopic albumen silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image (each): 7.7 × 7.6 cm (3 1/16 × 3 in.)
    sheet: 7.7 × 15.2 cm (3 1/16 × 6 in.)
    mount: 8.8 × 17.8 cm (3 7/16 × 7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.21.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

along left edge of mount printed in black ink: Keystone View Company / Manufacturers COPYRIGHTED / MADE IN U.S.A. / Publishers; top center: T597 / [underlined star]; along right edge: Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., / Chicago, Ill., London, England.; bottom right: 16648 The Full Moon. Yerkes Observatory.; on verso, center printed in black type: 594--(16648) / THE FULL MOON / This photograph of the moon shows clearly that / the moon is round or, to say it more correctly, / the moon is an almost perfect sphere. The moon / does not shine by its own light as the sun does. / Instead the moon shines by light reflected from / the sun. The sun shines on the moon and then / the moon sends the light on to us. You have / probably caught sunlight in a mirror and sent / it on, in just the same way. / When the moon is in such a position that the / whole face sends light to us, it looks round and / we call it a "full" moon. This view is of a full / moon. At other times the moon is in different/ positions and only part of its face sends light to us. Then we say the moon is new. However, / the moon is a sphere all the time, whether it looks / that way or not. It is made of the same material / as the earth, and we know the earth could not / change from a sphere to a crescent in a few days. / Children often wonder if anything lives on the / moon. Nothing that is like the people, animals, / and plants that we know could live there for the / temperature on the moon is sometimes more than / 200[degrees] below zero. On the other hand the lack of / atmosphere causes the moon's surface to become / melting hot when the sun strikes it directly. / The tides of our oceans are chiefly due to the / attraction of the moon on the water. High tide / comes regularly, about fifty minutes later each / day, just following the passing of the moon. / Scientists have decided, therefore, that the attrac-/tion (drawing power) of the moon causes the / tides. / Another stereograph tells you more about the moon. / Copyright by the Keystone View Company.

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