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Title
Portrait of Ira Sprague Bowen, in the Hale Library at Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena facility
Date Created and/or Issued
1946
1947
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
Portrait of Ira Sprague Bowen in the Hale Library, Mount Wilson Obervatory's facility at Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena. Bowen is seated on a desk, and is wearing a suit, tie and eyeglasses. Behind him on the wall in the library is a portrait painting, and books on bookshelves.
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; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier
COPC 2695
30692
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/790
Subject
Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973
Astronomers
Scientists
Science and technology libraries
Portrait painting
Books
Shelving for books
Suits (Clothing)
Neckties
Eyeglasses
Interiors
Portrait photographs
Pasadena (Calif.)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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