Percival Lowell’s personal secretary Wrexie Leonard at the eyepiece of the Clark Telescope; The Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA; 1896/7; [1427×1948].
The telescope she’s looking through (or making as if looking through – that billowy yet stiff-benecklined frock doesn’t admit of great manœuvrability at such tasks (as I can aver with some authority)) is the Clark 24" refractor , commissioned by Percival Lowell in 1895 & swiftly built by Alvan Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts; & used at first, amongst other matters, to search for Pluto (or to be more precise, what was named Pluto (after the cartoon dog – not after the Roman demiurge) after it was indeed discovered) … but Pluto was not to be found by Lowell.
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The telescope she’s looking through (or making as if looking through – that billowy yet stiff-benecklined frock doesn’t admit of great manœuvrability at such tasks (as I can aver with some authority)) is the Clark 24" refractor , commissioned by Percival Lowell in 1895 & swiftly built by Alvan Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts; & used at first, amongst other matters, to search for Pluto (or to be more precise, what was named Pluto (after the cartoon dog – not after the Roman demiurge) after it was indeed discovered) … but Pluto was not to be found by Lowell.