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Title: Arrival of the 100-inch telescope mirror at Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917-07
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: Arrival of the 100-inch telescope mirror at Mount Wilson Observatory. The mirror is covered with a white tarpaulin and is loaded in the back of a truck. A small crowd of people surrounds the truck. The observatory dome is seen between trees, to the right of the truck.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 585
28582
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1477
Subject: Mirrors
Tarpaulins
Trucks
Observatory domes
Crowds
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Women--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Dirt roads
Mountain roads
Trees
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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