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3-ton truck with a large box in front of the 100-inch telescope observatory site, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: 3-ton truck with a large box in front of the 100-inch telescope observatory site, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909
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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: 3 ton auto truck with big box load at the construction site for the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. George Jones is standing on the truck's front right tire; the other men are unidentified. A portion of the corrugated sheet metal walls of the observatory building are seen at the far left. Trees are seen in the background, behind the truck.
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 1339
29336
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/405
Subject: Trucks
Construction workers--United States
Jones, George
Observatories
Corrugated sheet metal
Doorways
Trees
Mount Wilson Observatory
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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