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Title: Technical drawing showing cross-section of the 100-inch telescope, dome, pier and telescope
Date Created and/or Issued: 1921-12
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: Technical drawing showing cross section of 100-inch telescope dome, pier, and telescope. The printed title in the upper right-hand corner of the drawing reads:"100 inch reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory". The scale is given below.
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 443
28440
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1362
Subject: Technical drawings
Observatory domes--Designs and plans
Reflecting telescopes--Designs and plans
Telescopes--Designs and plans
Engineering drawings
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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