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Tarring the roof of the new garage for Mount Wilson Observatory's office building, Pasadena

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Title: Tarring the roof of the new garage for Mount Wilson Observatory's office building, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1970-01-21
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: Tarring the roof of the new garage for Mount Wilson Observatory's office building, Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena. Several unidentified construction workers stand on top of the garage roof, applying tar and roof tiles. Several automobiles are parked in front of and near the garage. Palm trees are 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
Extent: 1 4X5 film neg
Identifier: COPC 1802
29799
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/2159
Subject: Roofing--Installation
Roofing, Bituminous
Tar
Garages--Design and construction
Parking garages--Design and construction
Construction workers--United States
Parking lots
Automobiles
Roofs
Palms
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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