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Title: 6-inch Willard photographic camera mounted on 6-inch equatorial telescope
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
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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: 6 inch Willard photographic camera mounted on 6-inch equatorial telescope. An unidentified astronomer, wearing a fur coat, is looking through the viewfinder. The interior walls of the observatory dome are seen in the background. Mount Wilson 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 1581
29578
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/687
Subject: Cameras
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Astronomical photography
Astronomers
Scientists
Observatory domes
Interiors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Fur garments
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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