Published August 10, 2017 in American eclipse tourism in the nineteenth century | Full size is 479 × 674 pixels

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The eclipse of 1878 was prominently featured on the cover of Harper’s Weekly of August 24, 1878. This scene shows an eclipse observation party in the vicinity of Gray’s Peak and Torrey’s Peak, in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver, Colorado.

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