File:Exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, ca.1904-1909 (CHS-3940).jpg

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Exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, ca.1904-1909
Photograph of an exterior view of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, ca.1904-1909. The great dome (the Crosby Dome?) and a smaller dome sit atop a large building at center. The astronomers' residence is the three-story building in front of this building. Another small dome and a complex of smaller buildings are visible at left on another hump of the mountain slope. A road runs along the crest of the mountain in the foreground at right. Low vegetation grows in the general vicinity.
Call number: CHS-3940
Photographer:
C. C. Pierce  (1861–1946)  wikidata:Q61995887
 
Alternative names
Charles C.
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 22 November 1861 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Springfield
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q61995887
:Filename: CHS-3940
Coverage date: circa 1904/1909
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Microfiche number: 1-100-7
Archival file: chs_Volume91/CHS-3940.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): research facilities
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Identifying number: unidentified no: 3940
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1904/1909
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Observatories -- Lick Observatory
Legacy record ID: chs-m10552; USC-1-1-1-10700
Geographic subject: mountains: Mount Hamilton
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Santa Clara
Subject (lcsh): Observatories
Subject: Lick Observatory
Date circa 1904
date QS:P,+1904-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
/1909 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/15681
Author
C. C. Pierce  (1861–1946)  wikidata:Q61995887
 
Alternative names
Charles C.
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 22 November 1861 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Springfield
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q61995887

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