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Title: Drawing of 60-foot observatory tower, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982-11-19
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: Drawing of 60-foot observatory tower, east elevation, Mount Wilson Observatory. The title at the foot of the drawing reads: "East elevation of 60 foot tower, Solar Observatory, Mount Wilson". The drawing shows the above-ground height of the tower to be 81' 4", and the below-ground spectrograph pit to be 30' deep. Other components are also labeled.
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 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 196
28193
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/2448
Subject: Drawings
Technical drawings
Towers
Observatories
Astronomical observatories
Drawings. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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