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Main section of the 100-inch telescope tube in transit to Mount Wilson Observatory

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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: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
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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