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The 100-inch mirror and hoisting device, resting on a raised platform above the silvering hole, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: The 100-inch mirror and hoisting device, resting on a raised platform above the silvering hole, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931-02-25
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: The 100-inch mirror and hoisting device, resting on a raised platform above the silvering hole, Mount Wilson Observatory. The interior balcony and walls of the observatory 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 4X5 B/W print
Identifier: COPC 575
28572
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1597
Subject: Mirrors
Optical instruments
Astronomical instruments
Hoisting machinery
Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Interiors
Balconies
Interior walls
Astronomical observatories
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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