Report of Comet Committee 1909-1913 : with index catalogue of all photographs of Halley's Comet
A report from the American Astronomical Society's Comet Committee, published in 1915, that gathers an index catalogue of photographs of Halley's Comet taken between 1909 and 1913 for astronomers studying the comet. The pictures are long-exposure photographs of the comet against star fields, with a bright head and a tapering tail running up the dark frame, and a designer might take from them the drama of a single streak of light falling through a night sky, shown in vertical compositions with stars rendered as fine speckles.
