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Title
Construction of the piling base of the 40-inch telescope at Yerkes Observatory, with construction workers on top
Date Created and/or Issued
1896-09
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Construction workers posing on the piling, as the final level is guided onto the base for the 40 inch telescope, Yerkes Observatory.
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
Black and white photograph; 24.5 x 19 cm
Identifier
Yerkes Observatory #061
44169
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/91
Subject
Pedestals
Construction workers
Yerkes Observatory
Large astronomical telescopes
Refracting telescopes
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Place
Williams Bay (Wis.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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