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Title: Coupled-gear truck and horse teams on Mount Wilson toll road
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907-08-01
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: Coupled-gear truck & horse teams on bend of Mt. Wilson toll road above Martin's camp water tunnel; they are carrying sections of the 60-foot tower telescope. Dowd & George Willis Ritchey are pictured. photo taken at 5:35 pm. Rocks, shrubs and trees are visible along the mountain road.
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 1334
29331
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1005
Subject: Trucks
Horse-drawn vehicles
Horses
Ritchey, G.W. (George Willis), b. 1864
Astronomers
Scientists
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Rocks
Shrubs
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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