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Title: Construction site of the Snow telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1904-09-10
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Construction site of the Snow telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory, as seen from platform in tree to the northeast. The site is in a clearing, surrounded by trees and shrubs. Several unidentified construction workers stand in the area. Concrete mixing troughs are seen, as is the foundation for one of the piers.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: COPC 216
28213
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1050
Subject: Construction--California
Construction workers--United States
Foundations
Construction equipment
Concrete mixers
Tools
Trees
Shrubs
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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