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Main bearing of the 100-inch telescope at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Mass

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Title: Main bearing of the 100-inch telescope at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Mass
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909
1910
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1919
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: 100 inch telescope main bearing at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. Unidentified machinist stands next to the main bearing.
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 8X10 print; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 531
28528
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/455
Subject: Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Machinists
Suits (Clothing)
Machine shops
Machinery
Fore River Ship and Engine Building Company (Mass.)
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Quincy (Mass.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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