[Robert R. McMath Solar Telescope, Kitt Peak Observatory, Pima County, Arizona] – Antique Wall Art
![[Robert R. McMath Solar Telescope, Kitt Peak Observatory, Pima County, Arizona], [1962] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/56/5609f0e1d623-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Robert R. McMath Solar Telescope, Kitt Peak Observatory, Pima County, Arizona]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Robert R. McMath Solar Telescope, Kitt Peak Observatory, Pima County, Arizona]
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Rising from the desert of southern Arizona, the McMath Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak is a tower built to hold a sunlit beam steady for study. Completed in 1962, it was among the largest solar telescopes of its time, and it directs sunlight down a long shaft to instruments housed underground, where temperature stays stable enough for precise measurements. Garnett's photograph later appeared in Nathaniel Owings' *The American Aesthetic* (1969), which presented modern American architecture as a form of national expression. Look at how the tower's clean, geometric lines stand out against the open sky.
| Created / published | [1962] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Copyright by ESTO Photographics, Inc. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: The American aesthetic / Nathaniel Owings ; Photos. by William Garnett ; Introd. by S. Dillon Ripley. New York : Harper & Row, [1969], p. 172. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1979:318. |
| Subjects | Kitt Peak National Observatory--Buildings--1960-1970. Astronomical observatories--Arizona--Pima County--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,465 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218703 |
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