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Title
Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube on a truck, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued
1916-10-28
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
Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, mounted on a truck, outside the Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena offices, side view. An unidentified construction worker poses behind the tube at the back of the truck. Behind the truck and tube an exterior wall of the office building is seen; folded awnings hang over the windows.
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 544
28541
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1425
Subject
Tubes
Steel, Structural
Trucks
Construction workers--United States
Wheels
Walls
Office buildings--California--Pasadena--Photographs
Brickwork
Windows
Awnings
Telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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