Image / 50-foot interferometer mount in front of Mount Wilson Observatory's machine shop, Pasadena

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Title: 50-foot interferometer mount in front of Mount Wilson Observatory's machine shop, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923-07-16
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: 50-foot interferometer mount in front of Mount Wilson Observatory's machine shop, Pasadena. Three (3) unidentified mechanics are posed with the steel mount; two are standing on the ground next to the mount, and the third is seated above the mount. The machine shop building is in the background.
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 258
28255
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1322
Subject: Interferometers
Optical instruments
Astronomical instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Steel, Structural
Mechanics (Persons)
Machine shops
Brickwork
Windows
Tarpaulins
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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