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Title: 60-inch telescope mirror on grinding machine, tipped forward
Date Created and/or Issued: 1901
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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: The 60-inch telescope mirror on grinding machine, tipped forward for testing. A workbench with equipment is seen on the left-hand side; a chair is in front of the tilted mirror. Photograph probably taken at the Mount Wilson Observatory's optical laboratory, Pasadena.
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
Identifier: COPC 17
28014
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/524
Subject: Glass grinding and polishing
Machinery
Optical laboratories
Workshops
Astronomical instruments
Chairs
Interiors
Pasadena (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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