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Title: Mount Wilson Observatory dome, with smoke from a fire in the background
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909-09-17
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: Smoke from fire in north fork of the San Gabriel river; 60-inch telescope dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory in foreground. photo taken with 18' lens.
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 1165
29162
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/984
Subject: Mount Wilson Observatory
Carnegie Observatories
Observatory domes
Forest fires--California
Trees
Astronomical observatories. (lctgm)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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