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Title: First model of Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920
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: First model of Mount Wilson Observatory, 48 inches long. The model shows several buildings for telescopes, and an observation tower. Behind the model are books on bookshelves, partically obscured with a dark cloth acting as a backdrop to the model.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: COPC 1139
29136
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1238
Subject: Mount Wilson Observatory--Models
Astronomical observatories--Models
Astronomical observatories--Designs and plans
Observatories--Models
Towers--Models
Bookcases
Books
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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