Title
F. Wagner Schlesinger demonstrating a 'why the sky is blue' exhibit
Reference
APHP.S1.A.F3.10
Creator
Scope and Content
F. Wagner Schlesinger, demonstrates an exhibit on why the sky is blue, which is effectively a large tube filed with gas. The photograph is dated in a Chicago Park District Office of the Comissioners note on the back: May 16, 1946. The Park District-written caption in this note reads: Why is the sky blue? (When it is blue.) Out of town students Clarice Ibenthal, Dorothy Sawle, Bill Herreid, Phyllis Blanchar, and Gerald Dahmen all of Middleton, Wisconsin, listen carefully as Wagner Schlesinger, Planetarium director explains and demonstrates the phenomena by artificially producing a small piece of the sky during the Planetarium Lecture for this month, "Rainbows and Halos".
Physical Descrip.
One 8 x 10 inch black and white print
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Format
graphic material
Level of description
ITEM
