Image / Construction of new Mount Wilson Observatory building, Pasadena

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Title: Construction of new Mount Wilson Observatory building, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1912
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 new observatory office building in Pasadena. Excavation and installation of concrete walls. The 60-inch telescope erecting house is in the background. On the far side of the excavation hole is a crane in use. Forms for the concrete foundation are seen in the lower left-hand corner of the photograph.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: COPC 1614
29611
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1298
Subject: Construction--California--Pasadena
Cranes, derricks, etc
Concrete construction--Formwork
Foundations--Design and construction
Earthwork
Buildings--California--Photographs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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