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Title
Construction of a new museum building, Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued
1936-08
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Construction of a new museum building, Mount Wilson. An unidentified construction worker, wearing a pith helmet, inspects the framing for one of the building's walls. Concrete footings and both wood and steel framing are shown.
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 4X5 B/W print; 1 4X5 film neg
Identifier
COPC 796
28793
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1729
Subject
Construction--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Construction workers--United States
Buildings--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Concrete construction
Framing (Building)
Steel framing (Building)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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