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Title: Construction of the Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena optical laboratory and office
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905
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 Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena office & shop building: window frames in place. Numerous (20?) construction workers are posed around the construction site. A small house is visible behind the construction area; trees and the San Gabriel Mountains are visible in the background.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 1733
29730
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/526
Subject: Construction
Construction projects
Construction workers--United States
Construction equipment
Dwellings
Optical laboratories
Workshops
Office buildings--California--Pasadena
Trees
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Pasadena (Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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