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Mount Wilson Observatory truck carrying long steel beam to the 100-inch telescope construction site

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Title: Mount Wilson Observatory truck carrying long steel beam to the 100-inch telescope construction site
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
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: Mount Wilson Observatory 1-ton truck carrying a long steel beam for the 100-inch telescope dome construction site. Three (3) unidentified men are posed on or near the truck. A partially-constructed building is 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/jpeg
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 1391
29388
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1289
Subject: Trucks
Girders
Steel, Structural
Men--California--Photographs
Buildings--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Trees
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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