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Title
100-inch telescope mirror on grinding machine
Date Created and/or Issued
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
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 mirror on the grinding machine. Photograph likely taken at the Pasadena optical shop of Mount Wilson Observatory.
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 51
28048
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/442
Subject
Glass grinding and polishing
Mirrors
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Optical laboratories
Machinery
Workshops
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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