[Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California]

[Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California]

Bound volume

Isaiah West Taber

Maker
American, 1830–1912

[Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California]

From the album The Rounded World is Fair to See


ca. 1884
Albumen silver prints
Image (top): 5 × 7 5/8 in. (12.7 × 19.4 cm)
Image (bottom): 5 7/16 × 9 3/16 in. (13.8 × 23.4 cm)
Mount: 10 1/4 × 13 11/16 in. (26.1 × 34.7 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1974.0197.0011
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on mount, TRC: 10
Printed in top image, B: No. 33. On the road to LICK OBSERVATORY, near San Jose, Cal.
Inscribed in top image, BR: 33.
Inscribed in black ink on mount, TR: Trees here shown are \ EUCALYPTUS.
Printed in bottom image, B: No. 1. LICK OBSERVATORY. \ Summit of Mt. Hamilton, near San Jose, Cal.
Inscribed in black ink on mount, BL: Mt. Hamilton is \ 4209 feet high \ 28 miles from San Jose.

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