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Edwin Hubble and James Jeans on the cassegrain platform of the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Edwin Hubble and James Jeans on the cassegrain platform of the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931-04
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: Edwin Hubble (left) and James Jeans on the cassegrain platform next to the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. A portion of the telescope dominates the photograph; the two men are seen at the far left.
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 film neg; 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 2911
30908
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1572
Subject: Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953
Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Telescopes
Cassegrainian telescopes
Elevating platforms
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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