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Title
Monastery roof with solar power panels, Snow telescope building in distance, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1905-08-01
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Monastery roof with solar power panels, Snow telescope building in distance, Mount Wilson Observatory. The monastery served as a dormitory for visiting scientists. The solar panels on its roof are for heating water. The Snow telescope building, long and white, is seen between the trees in the distance.
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 958
28955
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1202
Subject
Dormitories--California
Roofs
Solar collectors
Solar energy
Solar heating
Trees
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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