Mount Wilson observatory as seen from Mount Harvard. The observatory towers and buildings can be seen on the ridge, just left of center. The Snow telescope building is just to the right of the tallest tower. A large pine tree is in the foreground on the right-hand side of the photograph. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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