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Title: Scientists playing pool in the Hooker cottage, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925
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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: Scientists playing pool inside the Hooker cottage at Mount Wilson Observatory. Left to right are: Paul W. Merrill, Frederick E. Wright, Roscoe F. Sanford, and Ferdinand Ellermann. Three of the men are wearing suits, and all four are wearing eyeglasses. Three of the men are holding cues, and a rack of cues is visible on the wall behind Merrill.
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 4X5 B/W print; 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 3316
31313
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/864
Subject: Merrill, Paul W. (Paul Willard), 1887-1961
Wright, Frederick Robert Elliston, 1879-1966
Sanford, Roscoe F. (Roscoe Frank), 1883-1958
Ellerman, Ferdinand, 1869-1940
Billiards
Billiard players
Cues (Billiards)
Astronomers
Scientists
Suits (Clothing)
Eyeglasses
Interiors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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