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Title: Assemblage of the mount for the 50-foot interferometer, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923
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: Assemblage of the 50-foot interferometer mount at Mount Wilson Observatory's facility, Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, for use at the 1923 Pt. Loma eclipse. A construction worker is seen standing within the steel mount. In the foreground, to the left, a corner of the building and its tile roof is visible. In the background, a house and some trees are visible.
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 266
28263
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/778
Subject: Interferometers
Welded steel structures
Astronomical instruments
Construction workers--United States
Buildings
Dwellings
Roofing, Tile
Brickwork
Trees
Portrait photographs
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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