Image / North support column, or base, for the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: North support column, or base, for the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916
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 of the north support column, or base, for the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. The interior of the observatory dome is visible surrounding the structure. Written on the side of the structure (or on the photograph?) is "22, 235 lbs.".
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 534
28531
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/885
Subject: Bases (Architecture)
Columns
Pedestals
Observatory domes
Interiors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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