• Title
  Telescope, thought to have belonged to Leichhardt, 1842
• Creator
  Ludwig Leichhardt, 1813-1848
• Call number
  R 543
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1842
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  890179
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 telescope - brass - 3 cm diameter, 21.8 cm length when closed
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The telescope belonged to James Bligh Hastings, who presented the Library with another telescope (R 296), also thought to have been Leichhardt's
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
• General note
  
  Exhibited at American Bicentenary Celebrations Exhibition, December 1975 - March 1978
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1059164
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  On the telescope's barrel is faintly scratched 'L L[-?] hardt 1842'
• Name
  Hastings, James Bligh
  
• Topic
  telescopes
  explorers
  navigational instruments
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3461020

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