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New-York Daily Tribune - July 29, 1851

The total eclipse of July 28, 1851, crossed over Southeast Alaska before sweeping across British Canada and Greenland. Despite the fact that the path of totality never actually touched the United States (Alaska was still a Russian possession), newspapers still found the event noteworthy enough to cover, probably because the path eventually crossed over the Atlantic Ocean and entered parts of Europe. In New York, it was only a 17 percent partial eclipse, and on July 29 the New-York Daily Tribune took the opportunity to provide an overview of some of the upcoming eclipses for the next half-century. At the end of the article, readers are offered a handy eclipse calendar for the years 1824 to 1900.

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New-York Daily Tribune - July 29, 1851

(Any information about eclipse viewing procedures provided in historical articles should be considered unsafe)


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