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Title
6-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1914-11
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
6-inch telescope dome with dome partially open; 60-foot tower telescope with dome under construction in background, Mount Wilson Observatory. Trees and shrubs grow in the area between the two structures.
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 860
28857
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1508
Subject
Observatories
Observatory domes
Towers
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Trees
Shrubs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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