When astronomer Maria Mitchell trekked to Colorado to observe the 1878 total solar eclipse, this is what she might have seen. This chromolithograph of a drawing created by French artist Etienne Léopold Trouvelot captures his view of the event on July 29, 1878, in Creston, then part of the Wyoming territory.
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In July 1878, six women scientists, their attendants, a photographer and an artist gathered in Colorado on a panoramic plateau at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.