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Title: Positioning fork of the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-09-09
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: Positioning fork of the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. The upper end of teh fork is mounted on its pedestal, seen at the far left. The interior walls of the observatory dome are 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
Identifier: COPC 542
28539
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1423
Subject: Telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Pedestals
Steel, Structural
Girders
Walls
Interiors
Observatories
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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