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Replica of Sir Isaac Newton's telescope on top of a book entitled:Contributions from Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Replica of Sir Isaac Newton's telescope on top of a book entitled:Contributions from Mount Wilson Observatory
Creator: Hoge, Edison
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
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: Replica of Sir Isaac Newton's telescope sitting on top of a book, Contributions from Mount Wilson Observatory. Photographer Edison R. Hoge. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "Replica of Sir Isaac Newton's Telescope made for Festival of Britain [1951]. Given to EPH (see correspondence, Admiralty, HL Coll)."
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: Black and white photograph; 20 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Identifier: HUB 1082 (12)
53500
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/333
Subject: Telescopes
Books
Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953
Hoge, Edison
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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