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Title
The mirror for the 100-inch telescope
Date Created and/or Issued
1916-08
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
100-inch telescope mirror silvered and tipped forward on turn-table for testing, likely at the Mount Wilson Observatory's workshop in Pasadena.
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 print
Identifier
COPC 53
28050
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1412
Subject
Mirrors
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Workshops
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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