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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Exterior
Place:
Arizona
Date:
c. 1977
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Featured in the Smithsonian Torch 77-9, September 1977.
Summary:
The exterior, sporting a new outer skin of metal siding, of the facility housing the Multiple-Mirror Telescope (MMT) at Mount Hopkins Observatory, now known as the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, in southern Arizona. The MMT is a joint project between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the University of Arizona.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: September 1977