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Title
Three men with car and trailer carrying wooden pole, in front of 100-inch telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
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
Three (3) unidentified men with car and trailer, carrying a wooden pole, possibly a telephone pole. They are posed in front of the corrugated metal building that houses the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. A large spool of wire is seen in the back of the vehicle. All three men are wearing coveralls.
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 1392
29389
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/434
Subject
Men--California--Photographs
Automobiles--California--Photographs
Wood poles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Corrugated sheet metal
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Wire
Coveralls
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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