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Title: 60-inch mirror on grinding machine at Yerkes Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: 60 inch mirror on grinding machine at Yerkes observatory.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 336
28333
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/611
Subject: Mirrors
Glass grinding and polishing
Machinery
Interiors
Yerkes Observatory
Reflecting telescopes
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Williams Bay (Wis.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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