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Title: Olin Wilson at the microphotometer, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
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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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