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Title: Mirror for the Hooker 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1919
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: 100 inch mirror in its cell, approaching the lower end of the tube where it will be bolted tightly. For the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory.
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 59
28056
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/891
Subject: Mirrors--Frames
Hoisting machinery
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Astronomical observatories
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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