Commander E. D. Ashe and assistants Product:Canvas A General Election had just

A General Election had just been called

in only his second season

View of the south subway at the west end of Holborn Viaduct

View of the Temple of Concorde in Green Park

Inscribed below in ink: "Chelone pulchriceps

Commander E. D. Ashe and assistants Product:Canvas A General Election had justClear for action'. Photographic plate from The proceedings of the Canadian eclipse party, 1869, by Commander Edward David Ashe (Quebec, 1870). The photograph shows Commander Ashe with three of his assistants. Ashe was director of the Quebec Observatory and Royal Navy commander. He lead an expedition to Iowa to view the solar eclipse on 7 August 1869. Original: ink on paper. 1870