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Installation of steel reinforcing rods for the concrete floor of the foundation for the Hooker telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Installation of steel reinforcing rods for the concrete floor of the foundation for the Hooker telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907
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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: Installation of steel reinforcing rods for the concrete floor of the foundation for the Hooker telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory. Three (3) construction workers are clearly visible in teh foreground; a fouth man is in the background, standing behind a camera on a tripod. Trees are visible 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
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 29
28026
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/565
Subject: Bars (Engineering)
Construction workers--United States
Hoisting machinery
Foundations
Building--California
Floors
Building sites--California
Cameras
Trees
Astronomical observatories
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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