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Title: Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Creator: Hoge, Edison
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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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: The Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope, side view with tube 40 degrees from horizontal. Edwin Hubble's chair, on an elevating platform, is visible at left. Photograph taken by Edison Hoge. The interior of the observatory dome is visible.
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 8X10 print; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 387
28384
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/875
Subject: Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Astronomical observatories
Observatory domes
Astronomical instruments
Elevating platforms
Chairs
Bases (Architecture)
Pedestals
Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953
Hoge, Edison
Interiors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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