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Construction of the south dome of Yerkes Observatory, showing steel framing and construction workers

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Title: Construction of the south dome of Yerkes Observatory, showing steel framing and construction workers
Date Created and/or Issued: 1897
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: Construction workers on the south dome of Yerkes Observatory, after steel framing was installed. Lake Geneva is visible on the left.
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: Black and white photograph; 22.5 x 19 cm
Identifier: Yerkes Observatory #034
44138
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/31
Subject: Observatory domes
Yerkes Observatory
Structural frames
Construction workers
Lake Geneva (Wis.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Williams Bay (Wis.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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