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Title: Construction of the new Mount Wilson Observatory office building, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1912
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 new Mount Wilson Observatory office building, Pasadena. Excavation showing reinforcing columns and concrete shoot. The 60-inch telescope erecting house is in the background. A crane is also visible on the far side of the excavated foundation hole.
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 1616
29613
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1300
Subject: Construction--California--Pasadena
Construction projects
Concrete construction--Formwork
Foundations--Design and construction
Concrete footings
Steel, Structural
Steel framing (Building)
Office buildings--Design and construction
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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