Commander E. D. Ashe and assistants 1st Baron Clyde mounting from a blanket'

mounting from a blanket'

Charles James Fox attacking a many-headed monster

View showing men cutting stone in the street

very gamely prepared to play

'What a scandalous shame it is that they are allow'd to take people off in this here kind of way'

Commander E. D. Ashe and assistants 1st Baron Clyde mounting from a blanket'Clear for action'. Photographic plate from The proceedings of the Canadian eclipse party, 1869, by Commander Edward David Ashe (Quebec, 1870). The photograph shows Commander Ashe with three of his assistants. Ashe was director of the Quebec Observatory and Royal Navy commander. He lead an expedition to Iowa to view the solar eclipse on 7 August 1869. Original: ink on paper. 1870