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Title: Lower portion of the 100-inch telescope mirror cell
Date Created and/or Issued: 1912
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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: Lower portion of the 100-inch telescope mirror cell with lever system & plates for supporting the mirror, also showing piping for temperature control. Photograph taken inside the observatory dome; the foundation for the telescope is seen on the right-hand side and the interior walls of the dome are seen in the background.
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 54
28051
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/457
Subject: Electric apparatus and appliances
Electric switchgear
Electric controllers
Mirrors
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Ladders
Observatory domes
Astronomical observatories
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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