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Title
Optical shop of the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, Calif
Date Created and/or Issued
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
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
View from the southeast of the Pasadena physical lab, optical shop, & main office building of the Mount Wilson Observatory on Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena. The cement and stone buildings are surrounded by palm trees, and an evergreen tree. Telephone poles and wires are visible above and behind 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
Identifier
COPC 3348
31345
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/872
Subject
Optical laboratories
Astronautical laboratories
Testing laboratories
Buildings, Reinforced concrete
Palms
Evergreens
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Wire
Mount Wilson Observatory
Pasadena (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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