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Title: North end of the 100-inch telescope fork in position, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-08-07
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: North end of the 100-inch telescope fork in position, Mount Wilson Observatory. Scaffolding is underneath the fork; the interior walls of the observatory are in the background.
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 541
28538
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1422
Subject: Telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Steel, Structural
Scaffolding
Walls
Interiors
Ladders
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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