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Edwin Powell Hubble in a Doctoral robe, upon receiving an Honorary Doctorate in Science from Oxford University



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  • Edwin Powell Hubble and Grace Burke Hubble at the University of Oxford, 1934

    Edwin Powell Hubble and Grace Burke Hubble at the University of Oxford, 1934

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    Edwin Powell Hubble and Grace Burke Hubble when he received an honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Oxford. Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble on vero: "Grace & Edwin, who got Hon. DSc at Oxford 1934.". Edwin Hubble is wearing an academic robe, and Grace Hubble is wearing a fur stole over a skirt suit.

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  • Edwin Powell Hubble with the University of Oxford crew team, in Oxford, England

    Edwin Powell Hubble with the University of Oxford crew team, in Oxford, England

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    Group photograph of Edwin Powell Hubble with the University of Oxford crew team. Hubble is one of two in white, on the left. [Includes two team members' images carefully cut out and pasted onto the image, as if they were there the day the photograph was taken]. Photographer: Billman & Co., Oxford. The group portrait contains 19 men; Hubble is is the second row, second from the left in a white sweater.

    mssHUB 1039 (6)

  • Edwin Powell Hubble pitching a baseball in a game in Oxford, England

    Edwin Powell Hubble pitching a baseball in a game in Oxford, England

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    Edwin Powell Hubble pitching a baseball. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "EPH, Captain Baseball Team at Oxford, pitching". Much of the field is visible, as is someone's shadow in the lower right-hand corner.

    mssHUB 1039 (1)

  • Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble, holding a pipe, side view

    Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble, holding a pipe, side view

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    Studio Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble (with pipe). Photographer: Johan Hagemeyer, Camera Portraits Carmel. Profile view of Hubble, holding a pipe in his right hand, with left arm slightly extended.

    mssHUB 1032 (2)

  • Edwin Powell Hubble jumping the high jump in Oxford, England

    Edwin Powell Hubble jumping the high jump in Oxford, England

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    Edwin Powell Hubble jumping the High Jump. Other atheletes surround the pit, and onlookers are just visible behind in the stands. Note from photographer W. B. Millen on the back of the photograph. Oxford, England.

    mssHUB 1039 (5)

  • Edwin Powell Hubble wearing a double-breasted suit, with books in his left arm and a pipe in his mouth

    Edwin Powell Hubble wearing a double-breasted suit, with books in his left arm and a pipe in his mouth

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    Edwin Powell Hubble with books under his left arm and a pipe in his mouth. A woman in a plaid skirt suit is standing next to him, but part of the photograph is cut off and only a small portion of her left side is visible. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "EPH" Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble: "Aberdeen Proving Ground."

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