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Title
Olin Wilson at the microphotometer, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
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
Olin Wilson at the microphotometer, Mount Wilson Observatory. Wilson is seated on a stool inside a room, working with the microphotometer. He is wearing a suit, eyeglasses, and is smoking a pipe. Additional instruments and wire are visible in the room.
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 3147
31144
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/848
Subject
Wilson, Olin C., 1909-1994
Astronomers
Scientists
Microphotometer
Photometry
Microphotometry
Astronomical observatories
Astronomical instruments
Stools
Suits (Clothing)
Eyeglasses
Tobacco pipes
Wire
Interiors
Portrait photographs
Mount Wilson Observatory
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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