Maps of Solar Eclipses from 1875 to 1879

The eclipse of 1878 was prominently featured on the cover of Harper’s Weekly of August 24, 1878. This scene shows an eclipse observation party in the vicinity of Gray’s Peak and Torrey’s Peak, in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver, Colorado.

The story describes the scene of the eclipse:
"At this moment we perceived the great shadow ... and the distant sky ... assumed the yellow hue common to the moment just before sunrise."

'...a second later the sun, with one brilliant scintilla-tion, expired, leaving our position in darkness."

"The scene was now one of surprising beauty, for Pike's Peak, far away to the south, still remained in sunlight, looming in rosy outline, while the horizon that a moment before was ochre, now glowed with red, gold, pink, and lilac."

"...the corona itself gleamed around the moon's edge with a pale nebulous light, and the heavens above acquired a shade of blue that mortal cannot describe."

Annular Solar Eclipse of 1879 July 19

American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
Title: Outlines and Path of the Penumbra, and the Central Line of the Annular Eclipse of July 6, 1880.
Source: Scanned by Michael Zeiler at Federal Repository Library, UC Berkeley