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Albert Einstein on the stairs outside the 150-foote tower telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Albert Einstein on the stairs outside the 150-foote tower telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931-01-29
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: Albert Einstein on the stairs outside the 150-foot tower telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. Ferdinand Ellerman is seen, in part, behind Einstein. Einstein is wearing a suit and a necktie. A steel girder is seen above him.
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 2788
30785
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1549
Subject: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Ellerman, Ferdinand, 1869-1940
Astronomers
Physicists
Scientists
Suits (Clothing)
Neckties
Stairs
Girders
Mount Wilson Observatory
Towers
Observatories
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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