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Truck loaded with 40-foot timbers at the construction site of the 100-inch telescope observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Truck loaded with 40-foot timbers at the construction site of the 100-inch telescope observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
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Description: 3-ton truck loaded with 40-foot timbers at the construction site of the 100-inch telescope observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory. Four (4) unidentified construction workers stand near the loaded truck. Another building is seen in the background; a portion of a tree branch is in the foreground.
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 1338
29335
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/404
Subject: Trucks
Lumber
Construction--California--Mount Wilson
Construction workers--United States
Construction projects
Mount Wilson Observatory
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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