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Description	The most famous depiction of the 1833 actually produced in 1889 for the Adventist book Bible Readings for the Home Circle - the engraving is by Adolf Vollmy based upon an original painting by the Swiss artist Karl Jauslin, that is in turn based on a first-person account of the 1833 storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner on his way from Florida to New Orleans.
Source	http://star.arm.ac.uk/leonid/Meteor-Shower.jpg
Date	April 1888
Author	Adolf Vollmy
Permission (Reusing this image)	published before 1923 and also through Library of Congress
Other versions	The Leonids: King of the Meteor Showers The 1833 Leonid Meteor Shower: A Frightening Flurry Leonid viewing info About the Leonids The world's most famous meteor shower picture

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