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A portion of the mount for the 60-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena workshop

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Title: A portion of the mount for the 60-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena workshop
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907
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: A portion of 60-inch telescope mount being positioned in the erecting house at Mount Wilson Observatory's Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, workshop. An unidentified man stand next to the mount; a large hook at the end of a pulley hangs from the ceiling behind him. The corrugated metal walls of the building are in the background.
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 305
28302
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1111
Subject: Pedestals
Telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Hoisting machinery
Workshops
Corrugated sheet metal
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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