Seth Nicholson, Paul Merrill and Elizabeth Connor posed in the Mount Wilson Observatory Library, Pasadena. Nicholson and Merrill are seated at a large desk; Connor stands on the other side of the desk. Behind them a portrait painting of George Ellery Hale hangs on the wall, amidst books. Conner served as the Library's librarian from 1916 until her retirement in May 1950. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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