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A section of main girder for the 100-inch telescope dome, being driven up the Mount Wilson toll road

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Title: A section of main girder for the 100-inch telescope dome, being driven up the Mount Wilson toll road
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915-06-16
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: Top section of main girders for the 100-inch telescope dome being driven up Mount Wilson toll road on the back of a 3-ton truck. The two men riding with the girder are unidentified. Behind the truck the mountainside is clearly seen; large rocks, shrubs and trees are visible.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 1343
29340
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1284
Subject: Girders
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Trucks
Men--California--Photographs
Mountain roads--California
Trees
Shrubs
Rocks
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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