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Title
Wintertime view of San Jose's Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a wintertime view of San Jose's Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, ca.1900. The observatory is visible in the distance atop a snow-covered mountain. There are several buildings that make up the observatory, including two domed ones and several rectangular ones. There is a tree on the right side of the image stretching from the bottom to the top of the image. There are more trees lining the left side as well. The snow in the foreground is marked by footprints.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10550
USC-1-1-1-10698 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10196
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10550
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10196.jpg
Subject
Lick Observatory
Observatories--Lick Observatory
Observatories
Snow
Research facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
San Jose
Santa Clara
USA
Source
1-100-21 [Microfiche number]
10196 [Accession number]
CHS-10196 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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