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Yoke of the 60-inch telescope mounting being transported up a road on Mount Wilson

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Title: Yoke of the 60-inch telescope mounting being transported up a road on Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908
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: Yoke of the 60-inch telescope mounting being transported up a road on Mount Wilson. A team of horses harnessed to a cart lead the way along the dirt mountain road. Rocks and shrubs along the mountainside are visible in the surrounding area.
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 1384
29381
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/427
Subject: Yokes
Astronomical instruments
Telescopes
Horses
Horse-drawn vehicles--Photographs
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Mountains--California--Photographs
Rocks
Shrubs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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