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Title
Telephoto view of Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
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
Telephoto view of Mount Wilson observatory as seen from Mount Harvard. The tall observatory tower is seen on the left-hand side of the ridge, with a smaller tower to its right, on the other side of the Snow telescope building. To the right, an observatory dome and other buildings are seen. Pine trees dominate the foreground.
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 987
28984
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/500
Subject
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Towers
Observatory domes
Astronomical observatories
Buildings--California
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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