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Title: 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915-09
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: 100-inch telescope dome under construction, dome sheathing apparently complete, as seen from some distance away. Mount Wilson Observatory. A portion of a crane is seen sticking up through the shutter opening in the dome roof. Trees are in the foreground.
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 505
28502
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1399
Subject: Observatory domes--Design and construction
Sheathing (Building Materials)
Cranes, derricks, etc
Hoisting machinery
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Observatories
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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