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Three men lowering the lifting device onto the 100-inch mirror prior to returning it to the telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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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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