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Title: Preparation of construction site for a large water reservoir, Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911-06
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: Preparation of construction site for a large water reservoir, Mount Wilson. At teh far left, two horses are harnessed. Several unidentified construction workers are seen in the area, one of them holds a wheelbarrow. Trees are in the background.
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 882
28879
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1435
Subject: Construction workers--United States
Horses
Wheelbarrows
Earthwork
Trees
Grading (Earthwork)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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