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Title: Blueprint for the 60-inch reflecting telescope and dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905
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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: Blueprint for the 60-inch telescope and dome, Mount Wilson Observatory. The information in the lower right-hand of the blueprint reads:"60 Inch Reflector, Telescope, Dome and Building, Designer - G.W. Ritchey, Solar Observatory, Pasadena, Calif.". The scale is given below, in feet.
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 363
28360
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/616
Subject: Blueprints
Engineering drawings
Astronomical observatories
Observatory domes
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Mount Wilson Observatory
Drawings. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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