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Title
Andrew Carnegie and George Ellery Hale outside the 60-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1910-03-17
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Andrew Carnegie (left) & George Ellery Hale outside the 60-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory. Both men are wearing suits, hats and coats; Carnegie is holding a walking stick. The observatory dome is behind them, with a crowd of unidentified people outside of the building.
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
1 4X5 film neg; 1 5X7 film neg; 1 8X10 print
Identifier
COPC 2761
30758
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1080
Subject
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938
Philanthropists
Astronomers
Suits (Clothing)
Coats
Hats
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)
Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Grass
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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