#cloverdale ca

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We’re ready to view the eclipse, are you? Suit and tie optional!

This special 60-inch focus camera was used during the eclipse on January 1, 1889 in Cloverdale, California by I.W. Taber.

[bestboyseri]

waiting for a bus an an abandoned train station.

multiple people told me to hitch out of cloverdale and when i got there, there was no traffic at either spots. the highway sign at the second spot even had a tag that said “no traffic”

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Photographing a Solar Eclipse - 1889 Style

I. W. Taber operating a special 60-inch focus camera. (1889) 

On January 1, 1889 there was a total eclipse of the sun.  I. W. Taber joined a group of about thirty amateur and professional photographers in Cloverdale to photograph the eclipse. 

Taber was a fairly well-known California photographer in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Around 1875, Taber, a professional photographer, opened his own gallery at 26 Montgomery Street and later at 8 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. In 1906, during the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Taber lost his gallery and his negative collection.  By the time of the earthquake, Taber had amassed over 30,000 scenic views and 100,000 portraits.