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The 100-inch mirror in its hoisting machine, under the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: The 100-inch mirror in its hoisting machine, under the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939-11
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 100-inch mirror in its hoisting machine, under the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. Two unidentified men stand near the hoisting machine and mirror. A portion of the telescope can be seen in the upper right-hand corner of the photograph. The interior of the observatory is seen in the background.
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; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 641
28638
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1724
Subject: Mirrors
Hoisting machinery
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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