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Title: Construction of the main floor of the 100-inch telescope foundation pier
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
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 main floor of the 100-inch telescope foundation pier. Concrete framework is in place; an unidentified construction worker is on the far side of the structure, slightly blurred. An isntrument on a tripod stands in the center of the circular floor area.
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 481
28478
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1385
Subject: Construction--California
Concrete construction--Formwork
Construction workers--United States
Floors
Tripods
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Hoisting machinery
Trees
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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