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Title
Mount Wilson Observatory, interior, Mount Wilson, 1930-1934
Contributor
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966 (photographer)
Mount Wilson Observatory (subject)
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Bartlett (Adelbert) Papers
Rights Information
copyrighted
The copyright holder of these items has granted the UC Regents permission to make them publicly available on the web.
Description
Negative damaged: adhesive or paper residue at bottom edge; diagonal streaks or fold from top right to bottom left
Handwritten at edge of negative: 2150
Interior view of Mt. Wilson Observatory dome, with about 35 people gathered around 60-inch telescope, most standing, some seated, some on 2 ladders, with starry sky visible through open dome
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2150, Mt Wilson. Pls ret negs. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. View showing night crowd of tourists at 60 inch telescope point to Jupiter, 130,000,000 miles away. 4, 8LW, 208R1694
Type
image
Format
1 photographic negative
Identifier
edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.bartlett:1975
uclamss_1300_2011
2011
ark:/21198/zz002bxz2w
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Astronomical observatories -- California -- Mount Wilson
Telescopes -- California -- Mount Wilson
Place
California
Mount Wilson
Relation
Adelbert Bartlett Papers. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
ark:/21198/zz002bxz3d (document)

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