Image / Preparing the mirror of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Preparing the mirror of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920
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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: Scrubbing the 100-inch mirror with caustic potash & water solution using cotton swabs prior to silvering mirror. Walter S. Adams at upper right. Five (5) men surround the perimeter of the mirror; the head of three are visible.
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 4X5 B/W print
Identifier: COPC 604
28601
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/902
Subject: Mirrors--Cleaning
Brooms and brushes
Potash
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Cotton
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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