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Title
Installation of the observatory dome on the Hale Solar Laboratory, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued
1924-11-18
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Installation of the observatory dome on the Hale Solar Laboratory, Pasadena. The dome is on wooden ramps for hoisting onto the roof of the Laboratory building, seen in the background. Two unidentified construction workers stand on either side of the dome on the ramp. A tree stands at the far left side of the Laboratory building.
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 669
28666
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1507
Subject
Observatory domes
Hale Solar Laboratory
Laboratories
Roofs
Ramps (Walkways)
Hoisting machinery
Construction workers--United States
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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