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Title: 40-inch telescope and its base at Yerkes Observatory, inside the large dome, with an unidentified man standing at the controls
Date Created and/or Issued: 1897
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: The 40 inch telescope, and its base, Yerkes Observatory large dome, with an unidentified man standing at the controls.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: Black and white photograph; 23 x 18 cm
Identifier: Yerkes Observatory #063
44171
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/93
Subject: Large astronomical telescopes
Refracting telescopes
Yerkes Observatory
Observatory domes
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Williams Bay (Wis.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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