Mount Wilson Observatory
Historical Pictures Archive
(These pictures are taken from the 1988-1990 MWO Historical Calendars. Some pictures will be incorporated into other documents.)
1988
Jan
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Mount Wilson Hotel after the Blizzard of 1907
Feb
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Assembling the 100-inch Telescope, 1917
Mar
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Mt. San Antonio (Old Baldy)
Apr
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Night Sky View from Mount Wilson
May
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Silvering the 100-inch Mirror
Jun
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The Hale Solar Laboratory
Jul
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Aerial View of Mount Wilson
Aug
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The 100-inch Telescope Clock Drive
Sep
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Aerial View of Pasadena and Mount Wilson
Oct
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The 60-inch Telescope Dome and the Solar Towers
Nov
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The 100-inch Hooker Telescope
Dec
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The 60-inch Telescope
1989
Jan
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Einstein Visits Mount Wilson
Feb
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Solar Tower Telescopes after Snowfall
Mar
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Inspection Tour, 1907
Apr
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Harvard Telescope One Hundred Years Ago
May
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Staff Photograph, 1905
Jun
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George Ellery Hale
Jul
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The 100-inch Mirror Arrives on Mount Wilson
Aug
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Visitors' Night on the 60-inch Telescope
Sep
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Construction of the 100-inch Telescope, 1916
Oct
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Pease at the 50-foor Interferometer
Nov
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Hubble at the 100-inch Hooker Telescope
Dec
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The Largest Telescope in the World, 1908-1917
1990
Jan
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Einstein Visits Mount Wilson, 1931
Feb
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Snowfall Atop Mount Wilson, 1917
Mar
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Polar Axis of the 60-inch Telescope
Apr
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Abbot's Solar Building, 1905
May
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Snow Telescope and Solar Towers, 1911
Jun
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Erecting the Dome of the Hale Solar Lab
Jul
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Dome of the 100-inch at Night, 1950
Aug
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Two Men and Two Mules, 1904
Sep
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Construction of the 60-inch Dome, 1908
Oct
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Cepheid Variables Discovered in Andromeda Galaxy
Nov
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Hale and Ellerman
Dec
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Construction of the 100-inch Telescope, 1916
These pictures are taken from
Reflections
, a newsletter of the
Mount Wilson Observatory Association
(MWOA).
Vol I, #2
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Hale at MWO, June 1903
Vol I, #2
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Horsepower in 1904
Vol I, #2
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Snow Telescope Coelostat Mirror
Vol I, #2
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Snow Horizontal Telescope
Vol II, #1
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Carnegie and Hale, 1910
Vol II, #1
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The 60-inch mirror blank
Vol II, #1
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Bringing the 60-inch up to MWO in 1908
Vol II, #1
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The Hale and Carnegie Families
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