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Title
100-inch mirror aluminizing tank on the back of a Studebaker truck outside the 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1935-02-15
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
100-inch mirror aluminizing tank on the back of a Studebaker truck outside the 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory. A portion of the observatory building is seen at the far left, in front of the truck. Trees are seen in the background.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type
image
Format
image/tiff
Identifier
COPC 608
28605
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1644
Subject
Tanks
Containers
Trucks
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Observatories
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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