Dignitaries and guests posed on the front steps of the Yerkes Observatory during its dedication. George Ellery Hale is in a light hat on the far right towards the back. The second item in this group is this same photograph, with ms. key, listing most people in the photograph. The third item is the key. The key reads: 1. E.E. Barnard, 2. C.N. Rockwell, 3. G.L. Hull, 4. [blank], 5. Kurt Lanes, 6. Frank Very, 7. E.B. Frost, 8. Henry M. Paul, 9. E.F. Nichols, 10. F.R. Moulton, 11. Ephraim Miller, 12. Father Kendrick, 13. John M. Van Vleck, 14. Milton Updegraff, 15. Wm. R. Brooks, 16. F.L.O. Wadsworth, 17. H.C. Lord, 18. F.H. Seares, 19. [blank], 20. G.D. Hough, 21. Caroline E. Furness, 22. A.A. Lyon, 23. Mrs. Pickering, 24. Mr. Hale, 25. Miss Cunningham, 26. Carl A.R. Lundin, 27. J.A. Parkhurst, 28. John A. Brashear, 29. G.W. Ritchey, 30. McLeod, 31. Father Hagen, 32. Chas. Lane Poor, 33. J.K. Reese, 34. Miss Whitney, 35. J.E. Keeler, 36. Henry Pritchett, 37. [blank], 38. [blank], 39. [blank], 40. G.W. Miller, 41. C.L. Doolittle, 42. E.C. Pickering, 43. A.W. Quimby, 44. F.P. Flint, 45. Assph Hill Jr., 46. M.B. Snyder, 47. C.A. Runge, 48. W.A. Paine, 49. Winslow Upton, 50. Jos. Kathan, 51. G.D. Swezey, 52. Geo. E. Hale, 53. Bennett, 54. F. Ellesman, 55. Geo. Mons, 56. W.J. Humphreys, 57. Henry Crew. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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