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Title: Technical drawing of the 60-inch telescope, its dome and pier
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906-11-01
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: Technical drawing of the 60-inch telescope, dome, and support pier. North-South cross section. The text in the lower right-hand corner reads: "60-inch Reflecting telescope, Dome and building, Solar Observatory, Mount Wilson Calif. Designer G.W. Ritchey".
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 364
28361
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1151
Subject: Technical drawings
Engineering drawings
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Telescopes
Observatory domes
Astronomical observatories
Astronomical instruments
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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