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Edwin Powell Hubble, sitting by a telescope in Point Loma, California
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Edwin Powell Hubble, seated next to a telescope, at Point Loma, California
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Edwin Powell Hubble sitting on a wooden box by telescope. He is looking towards the camera. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "Exclipse [sic] Expedition Point Loma, Aug 1923." Note in unidentified hand: "Patience on a monument 'Wait till the clouds roll by'".
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Edwin Powell Hubble and three men sitting on a ladder on a passenger ship, in transit to Oxford, England
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Edwin Powell Hubble sitting on the bottom rung of a ladder, with three men sitting behind and above him. The men's last names are: Harrison, Figg-Hoblyn and Farley. They are on a passenger ship, in transit to Oxford, England, 1910. Hubble is in front, in a dark overcoat. The three other men are also in overcoats.
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Edwin Powell Hubble looking in the Schmidt telescope
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Edwin Powell Hubble looking through Schmidt telescope. He has a pipe in his mouth. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "EPH 1948 or 1949?"
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Edwin Powell Hubble in front of an astronomy exhibit
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Edwin Powell Hubble sitting on a desk, with an astronomy exhibit behind him, including a model of the 100-inch Hooker. [Probably at the Santa Barbara Street Observatory Offices].
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Edwin Powell Hubble and three (3) men sitting on a ladder aboard a trans-Atlantic ship
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Edwin Powell Hubble sitting on the bottom rung of a ladder, with three (3) men sitting behind and above him. The men's last names are: Harrison, Figg-Hoblyn and Farley. They are on a boat, in transit to Oxford, England. Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble: "Top: Farley of Mississippi, Figg-Hoblyn of Leland Stanford, Not a Rhodes Man, Harrison of Washington,....of Illinois. Taber of R.I. took the picture." Hubble is in front, wearing a dark overcoat.
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Edwin Powell Hubble and four unidentified men at the Carnegie Institution
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Edwin Powell Hubble and four unidentified men sitting behind a microphone. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "Exhibit--Carnegie Inst. " Hubble is second from the right, and is wearing plaid socks.
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