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Title: Edison Pettit seated at the monochromatic filter of his personal telescope
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
1946
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1955
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: Edison Pettit seated at the monochromatic filter on his personal telescope. Pettit is seated in a chair, and there are two (2) unidentified gentlemen standing behind him. Pettit's eyeglasses are in his shirt pocket.
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; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 3054
31051
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/839
Subject: Pettit, Edison, 1889-1962
Astronomers
Scientists
Telescopes
Photography--Light filters
Eyeglasses
Portrait photographs
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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