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Title: Hooker telescope building under construction, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
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: Hooker telescope building under construction, Mount Wilson Observatory. The framework is completed, and inner sheathing begun. Trees and shrubs are in the area surrounding the building.
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
Identifier: COPC 37
28034
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1354
Subject: Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Construction--California
Framing (Building)
Steel, Structural
Astronomical observatories
Observatories
Trees
Shrubs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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