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Top section of main girder for the Hooker telescope dome, prior to installation

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Title: Top section of main girder for the Hooker telescope dome, prior to installation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
1916
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 girder for the Hooker telescope dome, prior to installation, Mount Wilson Observatory. The interior balcony is visible, with the girder section across it. The structural framework for the dome is seen behind the girder.
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 35
28032
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1349
Subject: Girders
Framing (Building)
Steel, Structural
Observatory domes
Mount Wilson Observatory
Balconies
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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