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Title: Snow telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905-08-02
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: Snow telescope building as seen from straight ahead, Mount Wilson Observatory. Photo taken from spruce tree to the south, showing the 'pagoda' effect of the building. The coelostat is seen at the end of the platform. Trees and shrubs surround the building.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 234
28231
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1066
Subject: Observatories
Astronomical observatories
Mount Wilson Observatory
Coelostat
Optical instruments
Astronomical instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Platforms
Trees
Shrubs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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