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Edwin Powell Hubble, seated with his cat Nicolas Copernicus, behind an armillary sphere

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Title: Edwin Powell Hubble, seated with his cat Nicolas Copernicus, behind an armillary sphere
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953-03
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: Edwin Powell Hubble, seated with his cat Nicholas Copernicus, behind an armillary sphere, with an orrery to his left. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "EPH and Nicholas Copernicus, March 1953".
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: Black and white photograph; 20 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Identifier: HUB 1035 (9)
3075
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/153
Subject: Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953
Armillary spheres
Planetariums
Black cats
Astronomical instruments
Portrait photographs
Hubble, Grace Burke, d. 1980
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Place: San Marino (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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