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Title
Original Mount Wilson Observatory Pasadena building, telescope erecting house and new physical laboratory, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued
1908
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
Original observatory building (center), 60-inch telescope erecting house (left), & new physical laboratory (right). Buildings of the Mount Wilson Observatory offices and laboratory, Pasadena. Utility poles are in front of the center building; lawns, streets and some shrubs are in front of the buildings.
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 Glass neg 5x7
Identifier
COPC 1609
29606
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/513
Subject
Optical laboratories
Office buildings--California--Pasadena
Workshops
Building, Brick
Windows
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Streets--California--Pasadena
Lawns
Shrubs
Sidewalks
Curbs
Pasadena (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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