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Title: The 60-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory, being painted
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923-05-17
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 60-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory, being painted. Three (3) unidentified painters are positioned along the domed roof near a ladder. One of the observatory towers is in the background, to the right. Trees are in the surrounding area.
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 303
28300
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1340
Subject: Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Observatory domes
Observatories
Painters
Ladders
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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