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Title: Snow telescope building under construction, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1904-10-27
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: Snow telescope building under construction, seen from the northeast. Shingling of the roof is just underway. In the foreground, piles of bundled shingles are seen on the ground. Construction workers are seen shingling the roof of the building. Trees and shrubs are in the surrounding area.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: COPC 222
28219
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1057
Subject: Construction--California
Construction projects
Construction workers--United States
Construction equipment
Roofs
Shingles
Framing (Building)
Framing, Structural
Trees
Shrubs
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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