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Title
Construction workers with main girder on truck, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1915-07
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Main girder of the 100-inch telescope dome arriving at the construction site upon the observatory 3-ton truck, Mount Wilson Observatory. The construction workers are unidentified. The corrugated steel building exterior is to the far right; steel pieces are at the far left, under a part of a crane.
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 509
28506
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1402
Subject
Construction workers--United States
Girders
Trucks
Automobiles
Corrugated sheet metal
Construction equipment
Cranes, derricks, etc
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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