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Title: Construction of the 100-inch telescope building foundation, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913-08-22
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: Construction of the 100-inch telescope building foundation, Mount Wilson Observatory. An unidentified construction worker sits on top of one of the brackets along an exterior wall. Wooden scaffolding and ladders surround a portion of the wall. The concrete foundation wall is seen in the foreground.
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 467
28464
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1374
Subject: Construction--California
Construction projects
Brackets
Foundations--Design and construction
Astronomical observatories
Observatories
Scaffolding
Ladders
Construction workers--United States
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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