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Truck transporting the lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube nearly off the road, Mount Wilson

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Title: Truck transporting the lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube nearly off the road, Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-10-29
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: Lower section of 100-inch telescope tube on truck on Mt. Wilson toll road; road has given way under rear wheel and truck is precariously tipped. Shrubs cover the surrounding hillside.
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 film neg
Identifier: COPC 548
28545
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1434
Subject: Trucks
Tubes
Steel, Structural
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Shrubs
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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