Word: catalina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco 96 12:44 " Los Angeles 99 12:57 " San Diego 100 12:58 " The Yerkes Observatory expedition (TIME, Sept. 3), in charge of Director Edwin B. Frost, is financed by William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing-gum man) with a gift of $5,000, and occupies sites on Santa Catalina Island (directly in the path of totality), which is owned by Mr. Wrigley. Oh a plateau 1,300 feet above sea-level an observatory equipped with elaborate telescopic and photographic apparatus has been erected."; The unique feature of the Yerkes enterprise is its use of moving picture machines for the first...
...Point Concepci�n (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly in the path of totality, and one of them, San Clemente, is exactly on the center line, with practically the total possible duration. In Mexico other advantageous points for viewing the eclipse are at Ensenada (in Lower California), Hermosillo (in Sonora), Cuencam?...
...Yerkes Observatory expedition headed by Director Edwin B. Frost and Captain Barnett Harris, of the War Department, will take motion pictures of the eclipse with four cameras placed 15 miles apart. They will be stationed on Santa Catalina Island...
...Washburn Observatory expedition, University of Wisconsin, will be on Santa Catalina Island...
...Goodsell Observatory expedition, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., will observe from Santa Catalina Island...