Yerkes Observatory
| Title | Yerkes Observatory |
| View | 40-inch Refractor Telescope 10 |
| Series | II: Buildings and Grounds |
| Description | Yerkes Observatory 40-inch refractor telescope is sixty-three feet long, and the dome over it is ninety feet in diameter. The floor below it measures seventy-five feet across, and can be raised and lowered twenty-three feet, a range which allows the telescope to point at objects near the horizon or at the zenith. |
| Subject Terms | Refracting telescopes | Observatory domes | Floors (Surface elements) | Astronomical observatories |
| Photographer | Tapscott, Joseph; Yerkes Observatory |
| Photograph Date | 1974? |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 23.8 x 18.3 cm |
| Location | 373 W. Geneva Street | Williams Bay, Wisconsin |
| Campus Grid | Y01 |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf2-08773 |
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