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Tube of the 60-inch telescope being transported along a mountain road on Mount Wilson

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Title: Tube of the 60-inch telescope being transported along a mountain road on Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908
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: Tube of the 60-inch telescope being transported up a road on Mount Wilson. The tube is on a horse-drawn cart. Tree-covered mountains and shrubs are seen 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
Identifier: COPC 1388
29385
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/431
Subject: Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Horse-drawn vehicles
Horses--Transportation
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Mountains--California
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Trees
Shrubs
Rocks
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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