Preparing to remove the silvered surface from the 100-inch mirror prior to its initial aluminizing, Mount Wilson Observatory. Three (3) unidentified men surround the mirror, which is resting on a wooden platform. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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