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Workmen cutting down a large pine tree at the 100-inch telescope site, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Workmen cutting down a large pine tree at the 100-inch telescope site, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911-07-22
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: Workmen cutting down a large pine tree at the 100-inch telescope site, Mount Wilson Observatory. The two (2) unidentified men standing in front of the tree are holding both ends of a crosscut saw. A third unidentified man stands nearly behind the tree; he is wearing a suit and tie. A wooden building is behind them, to the far right.
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 452
28449
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1369
Subject: Tree felling
Trees
Crosscut saws
Saws
Construction workers--United States
Buildings--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Mount Wilson Observatory
Suits (Clothing)
Neckties
Hats
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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