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Title: Astronomer with 100-inch focal length aerial camera, on Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
1940
1941
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1947
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1949
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: An unidentified astronomer with a 100 inch focal length aerial camera, on Mt. Wilson for testing. The camera is mounted on wooden supports, all of which are tied down with rope. The astronomer and the camera are in the bed of a pickup truck. Trees are visible in the surrounding area.
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 4X5 film neg
Identifier: COPC 1601
29598
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/692
Subject: Astronomers
Scientists
Cameras
Cameras--Calibration
Astronomical instruments
Photography
Pickup trucks
Trees
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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