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Scrubbing the 100-inch mirror for the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Scrubbing the 100-inch mirror for 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: Gentle scrubbing of 100-inch mirror for the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope, after first deposit of silver on its surface. Mount Wilson Observatory. Four men, with long-handled brushes, are standing around the perimeter of the mirror.
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; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 605
28602
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/903
Subject: Mirrors--Cleaning
Silver
Reflecting telescopes
Brooms and brushes
Large astronomical telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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