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Title
Interior of the west room in Mount Wilson Observatory's physical laboratory in Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued
1925-11-25
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Interior of the west room of Mount Wilson Observatory's physical laboratory in Pasadena; taken from the southwest corner. This is possibly Arthur King's laboratory. Contained in the room are furnaces, spectroscopic equipment, magnets and a variety of other astronomical and optical instruments. The ceiling is corrugated sheet metal; interior brick walls are seen on the far walls.
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 8X10 print; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier
COPC 9
28006
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1510
Subject
Laboratories
Interiors
King, Arthur S., d. 1957
Spectroscope
Spectrum analysis--Instruments
Magnets
Electric furnaces
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Corrugated sheet metal
Tables
Brickwork
Walls
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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