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Title
Main section of the 100-inch telescope tube in transit to Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1916
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Main section of 100-inch telescope tube on a truck, in transit to Mount Wilson Observatory. A truck wheel has gone off the dirt road; the steel tube is being hoisted back into position. A small crowd of people surrounds the tube and trucks. Rocks and shrubs cover the surrounding hillside.
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 533
28530
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1413
Subject
Tubes
Steel, Structural
Trucks
Automobiles
Crowds
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Suits (Clothing)
Hats
Women--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Shrubs
Rocks
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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