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Interior of the west room of Mount Wilson Observatory's physical laboratory in Pasadena

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Title: Interior of the west room of Mount Wilson Observatory's physical laboratory in Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925-11
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: Interior of the west room of Mount Wilson Observatory's physical laboratory in Pasadena; taken from the southwest corner. This is possibly Arthur King's laboratory, and contains spectroscopic equipment, furnaces, magnets and a variety of other astronomical, optical and scientific instruments. The ceiling is corrugated sheet metal.
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 10
28007
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1512
Subject: Laboratories
Interiors
King, Arthur S., d. 1957
Spectroscope
Electric furnaces
Magnets
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Tables
Corrugated sheet metal
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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