Total Solar Eclipse, 29 June 1927

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JOHN JACKSON CBE, MA, DSC, FRS (1887-1958)
Total Solar Eclipse, 29 June 1927
Framed and glazed, gelatin silver print, signed 'J. Jackson' (lower right ), 'P.J. Melotte' (lower right) and 'C.R. Davidson' (lower right-hand margin) and titled 'Chromosphere and Corona photographed at Giggleswick'
10 5⁄8 x 13 5⁄8 in. (27 x 34.5 cm.)

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Framed and glazed, gelatin silver print, signed 'J. Jackson' (lower right ), 'P.J. Melotte' (lower right) and 'C.R. Davidson' (lower right-hand margin) and titled 'Chromosphere and Corona photographed at Giggleswick'

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This picture was taken by John Jackson under direction of Sir Frank Watson Dyson, Astronomer Royal, at Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, and was featured in the The Times newspaper the following day. It depicts the first total eclipse to be visible from mainland Britain for 203 years, an event recorded by Virginia Woolf in A Writer's Diary, Hogarth Press, 1953: 'We had fallen. It was extinct. There was no colour. The earth was dead.'.

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