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Title: (backlit) Planetary System. Eclipse of the Sun. The Moon. The Zodiacal Light. Meteoric Shower.
Date: 1887
Artist: Levi Walter Yaggy (1848-1912)
Type of art: chromolithograph, celestial map
Note: This chart has 5 opening flaps. Here it is backlit.
Note 2: Yaggy's charts were intended for use in classrooms by students. He issued a teacher's handbook to assist with instruction.
Publication title: Yaggy's Geographical Study Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography. Published by Western Publishing House. Chicago. Copyrighted 1887.
Source and information: David Rumsey Map Collection
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