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Title: Top section of main girder being installed, Hooker telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
1916
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: Top section of main girder being installed, Hooker telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory. The rest of the structural framework for the dome is also seen. Trees are in the surrounding area.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 36
28033
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1350
Subject: Girders
Framing (Building)
Steel, Structural
Observatory domes
Hoisting machinery
Construction--California
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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