A new photograph of the interior of the Ladd Observatory, a place which Lovecraft knew very well. The camera looks between rooms and across a corridor, and thus into the tiny Clock Vault room. The need for a sealed room, constant temperature, and thick insulation for this room might remind one of Lovecraft’s story “Cool Air”.

From the same blog, even more Lovecraftian is a 1930s picture of the chemical battery cells that powered the Observatory’s telegraph system…