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Construction workers with wooden beams for construction of the 100-inch telescope dome construction, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Construction workers with wooden beams for construction of the 100-inch telescope dome construction, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
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 workers with 40-foot long wooden beams, loaded on a truck, for the construction of the 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory. The five (5) construction workers are standing on and around the truck loaded with several wooden beams. Steel and iron rods are on the ground in the foreground; a partially constructed structure is on the right-hand side.
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 470
28467
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/636
Subject: Construction workers--United States
Construction projects
Lumber
Lumber--Transportation
Trucks
Bars (Engineering)
Trees
Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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