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Charles André.

Photographs of the Government Observatory and surrounding scenery in Ogden.

Ogden, UT, [May 1878]
9 albumen prints, each about 4½ x 6½ inches, on plain heavy paper mounted, 10½ x 14 inches; minor wear to mounts; each captioned in manuscript "Souvenir d'Ogden" and signed "Ch André."

The French astronomer Charles Louis François André (1842–1912) was the founder of the Lyon Observatory in 1878. That same year, he went overseas to Utah to observe the 6 May 1878 transit of Mercury. 4 of these images show Ogden's recently constructed Government Observatory. One shows a railroad trestle with the town in the background, another shows a railroad siding, and all of them show the Ogden area's natural scenery: sagebrush flats, rivers, and snow-capped peaks. 

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