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Title: 50-foot interferometer mount, outside Mount Wilson Observatory's office in Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923-07-16
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: 50-foot interferometer mount, outside Mount Wilson Observatory's office in Pasadena. Two unidentified men stand on the ground next to the interferometer mount, a third is poised above the mount adjusting a tarpaulin. A small portion of the office building is seen behind the tarpaulin at the far left. The two men on the ground are wearing coveralls and hats.
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 907
28904
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1453
Subject: Interferometers
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Men--California--Pasadena--Photographs
Coveralls
Hats
Tarpaulins
Office buildings--California--Pasadena--Photographs
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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