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Title
Echo Mountain Observatory, 1910
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1910
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the Echo Mountain Observatory (Mount Lowe Observatory) buildings, 1910. The rotating dome of the building housing the large telescope is open toward the foreground. Several people stand on a path near a railing at the top of a small one-story wooden building. A wooden platform is in the foreground. The mountains rise closely in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5127
USC-1-1-1-5229 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2186
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5127
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2186.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Altadena--Mt. Lowe
Mountains
Observatories
Research facilities
Time Period
1910
Place
Altadena
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-100-4 [Microfiche number]
2186 [Accession number]
CHS-2186 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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