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Title: The 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953-02
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: The 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. Several unidentified men are seen standing near the base of the telescope; one man sits on part of the fork, near the cage. The interior balcony and interior walls of the observatory are seen 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 652
28649
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1697
Subject: Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Interiors
Balconies
Interior walls
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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