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Title: First model of Mount Wilson Observatory under construction
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920-03
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: First model of Mount Wilson Observatory under construction; view from the east showing buildings in place. The model sits on a wooden table. behind the model, a dark cloth has been hung on the wall to provide a backdrop to the model. A calendar page is on the wall; a lamp hangs above the model on the table.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: COPC 1147
29144
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1245
Subject: Mount Wilson Observatory--Models
Astronomical observatories--Models
Observatories--Models
Towers--Models
Calendars
Lamps
Tables
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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