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Title
Seth Nicholson, Elizabeth Connor and Paul Merrill inside the Mount Wilson Observatory Library, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued
1950-04
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Seth Nicholson, Elizabeth Connor, and Paul Merrill inside the Mount Wilson Observatory Library, Pasadena. Nicholson is at the far left, looking over Connor's shoulder. The group is posed in front of a portrait painting of George Ellery Hale. Books line the wall behind them. Connor was the Library's librarian from 1916 until her retirement in May 1950.
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
Identifier
COPC 2754
30751
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1843
Subject
Nicholson, Seth B. (Seth Barnes), 1891-1963
Connor, Elizabeth
Merrill, Paul W. (Paul Willard), 1887-1961
Astronomers
Scientists
Librarians
Libraries--California--Pasadena--Photographs
Portrait paintings
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938
Books
Bookcases
Mount Wilson Observatory
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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