Sixty inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, 1920-1939
Item Overview
- Title
- Sixty inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, 1920-1939
- Date Created
- [1920-1939]
- Date
- 1920/1939
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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One man stands on a platform and uses the 60 inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory as another man stands behind him, and a third man stands at the bottom of the platform ladder.
The 60-inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory was the largest operational telescope in the world when it was completed in 1908. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: 60 in. telescope
Text from negative sleeve: Mount Wilson
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Mount Wilson Observatory
- Location
- Mount Wilson (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.225701
- Latitude
- -118.056987
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Telescopes--California
Observatories--California--Los Angeles County
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_6760
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cx1q3
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .