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120-inch Reflecting Telescope Nearing Completion

Title:

120-inch Reflecting Telescope Nearing Completion

Creator:

Associated Press

Type:

Image

Series:

Series 7: Photographs

People:

Lick Observatory

Place:

Lick Observatory

Date Created:

1955

Description:

The Lick Observatory Archive documents one of the most historically important observatories in the world, and is a unique resource for the study of the history of modern astronomy. The digital collection contains digitized historical photographs from Series 6 and 7 of the larger collection and includes portraits of astronomers, telescope and lens makers and other prominent scientists, scenes of life at the observatory on Mount Hamilton, instruments, and documentation of expeditions. The physical archive includes records beginning in 1870 describing the founding construction and operation of the observatory, and documenting aspects of the early astronomical ambitions and achievements of its founders. Correspondence, copybooks, drawings, diaries and logs, and the personal papers of resident and visiting astronomers make up a large portion of the Archive.

Subject:

Lick Observatory and Lick Observatory

Call Number:

UA 36
Group in front of 100-inch at Mount Wilson

Title:

Group in front of 100-inch at Mount Wilson

Variant Title:

Albert Einstein, Walter Adams, Edwin Powell Hubble, William Wallace Campbell, Charles St. John

Sub-Series Title:

Lick Observatory Personnel and Residents

Creator:

Associated Press

Type:

Image

Series:

Series 7: Photographs

People:

Lick Observatory

Place:

Lick Observatory

Date Created:

1931

Description:

The Lick Observatory Archive documents one of the most historically important observatories in the world, and is a unique resource for the study of the history of modern astronomy. The digital collection contains digitized historical photographs from Series 6 and 7 of the larger collection and includes portraits of astronomers, telescope and lens makers and other prominent scientists, scenes of life at the observatory on Mount Hamilton, instruments, and documentation of expeditions. The physical archive includes records beginning in 1870 describing the founding construction and operation of the observatory, and documenting aspects of the early astronomical ambitions and achievements of its founders. Correspondence, copybooks, drawings, diaries and logs, and the personal papers of resident and visiting astronomers make up a large portion of the Archive.

Subject:

Lick Observatory and Lick Observatory

Call Number:

UA 36