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Title: 100-inch telescope south float, pedestal and worm wheel, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920-06
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: 100-inch telescope south float, pedestal, and worm wheel, Mount Wilson Observatory. The interior balcony and walls are visible in the background.
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 538
28535
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1417
Subject: Wheels
Pedestals
Reflecting telescopes
Telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Balconies
Walls
Interiors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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