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Title: The 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950-10
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 telescope dome as seen from the southwest, shutters open, man visible on exterior catwalk, Mount Wilson Observatory. Photo taken with 18' lens. Clouds are in the sky behind the observatory; trees are in the foreground.
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 413
28410
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1908
Subject: Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Roofs
Observatories
Astronomical observatories
Balconies
Clouds
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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