Image / Testing 100-inch telescope floats at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Mass

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Title: Testing 100-inch telescope floats at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Mass
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
1914
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: Testing 100-inch telescope floats at Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts. Three unidentified machinists are posed in and around the telescope floats; two are standing on wooden scaffolding.
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 527
28524
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/450
Subject: Machinists
Machinery
Astronomical instruments
Scaffolding
Coveralls
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Interiors
Fore River Ship and Engine Building Company (Mass.)
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Quincy (Mass.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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