[Rarebooks] FS: 1910s-20s Western Wildlife Photo Album by Astronomer William Wright

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

1910s-20s Western Wildlife Photo Album by Noted Astronomer William 
Wright.

The typewritten title page explains- “All the photographs in this Album, 
were taken in the native haunts of the game. None were taken in parks of 
other preserves. Many of them were taken with the Telephoto lens, at a 
distance of, from two to six hundred yards. [signed] W.H. Wright”. 
Wright’s subjects include big horn sheep, antelope, mule deer, and elk, 
mostly in wintertime. William Hammond Wright [1871-1959] was an 
astronomer and director of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in 
Santa Clara County, California, from 1935 to 1942. He was famous for his 
work “on radial velocity of stars in our galaxy, and his work with his 
own version of the spectrograph that he designed himself”. He was also 
noted for his work on astronomical photography. That he spent his spare 
time using a telephoto lens to photograph terrestrial wildlife is not 
all that surprising.

Album. 8”x5.5”, typewritten title-page, plus 17 pasted-in black & white 
photos, each about 3”x4.5”, on 50 pages. Covers worn and soiled, pages 
clean and good. [44244]  $350

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