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Title: Tower at Mount Wilson Observatory, under construction
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909-10
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: 150-foot tower at Mount Wilson Observatory under construction, second section up. A construction worker is seen sitting on top of one of the tower legs. Trees visible in surrounding area.
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 98
28095
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/958
Subject: Towers--Design and construction
Building sites
Building, Iron and steel
Steel framing (Building)
Construction workers
Trees
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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