Cover of Harper’s Weekly (1883), showing children in New York sharing a piece of smoked glass to follow the transit of Venus across the Sun the previous year. "Based on a painting by J. G. Brown"
John George Brown (painting, copied as an engraving by unidentified artist for Harper's Weekly, 1883)
1883-04-28
April 28 issue of "Harper's Weekly", via copy at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://diginit.library.ubc.ca/digitizers-blog/the-transit-of-venus-1883/">[1]</a> (also seen at lower res at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/05/29/science/space/20120529-VENUS-6.html">[2]</a>)