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Title: Sixty inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, 1920-1939
Date Created and/or Issued: [1920-1939]
1920/1939
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
One man stands on a platform and uses the 60 inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory as another man stands behind him, and a third man stands at the bottom of the platform ladder.
The 60-inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory was the largest operational telescope in the world when it was completed in 1908.
Handwritten on negative: 60 in. telescope
Text from negative sleeve: Mount Wilson
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6760
ark:/21198/zz002cx1q3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Telescopes--California
Observatories--California--Los Angeles County
Mount Wilson Observatory
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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