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Title: Piling for proposed rolling shutter at the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911
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: Piling for proposed rolling shutter at 100-inch telescope site, later abandoned. Mount Wilson Observatory. Three constructions workers are standing by the side of the mountain road, with some brush. Trees are in the 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
Extent: 1 4X5 B/W print
Identifier: COPC 459
28456
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/624
Subject: Piling (Civil engineering)
Foundations
Construction workers--United States
Mountain roads
Trees
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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