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Title
Three men lowering the lifting device onto the 100-inch mirror prior to returning it to the telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1935-03-01
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
Three unidentified men lowering the lifting device onto the 100-inch mirror prior to returning it to the telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. Two of the three men, wearing work clothes and hats, are seen at the far left, with their hands on a portion of the lifting device. The third unidentified man stands opposite, at the far right.
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 B/W print; 1 4X5 film neg
Identifier
COPC 635
28632
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1682
Subject
Hoisting machinery
Mirrors
Optical instruments
Astronomical instruments
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Hats
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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