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Title: The 50-foot interferometer, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930-03-07
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: The 50-foot interferometer, showing lower section, Mount Wilson Observatory. An unidentified man stands beneath the interferometer. A wooden stair case winds its way towards a wooden platform at one end of the interferometer, seen at far right. A shed is seen behind the man and the interferometer.
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 82
28079
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1616
Subject: Interferometers
Astronomical instruments
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Staircases
Stairs
Platforms
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Sheds
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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