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Title
Building site of the 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1913
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
Building site of the 100- inch telescope dome, as seen from the 150-foot tower telescope; construction on wooden mold for lower part of pier nearly completed. Several outbuildings and many trees are seen in the surrounding area. The San Gabriel Mountains 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
Extent
1 8X10 print
Identifier
COPC 463
28460
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/628
Subject
Building sites
Construction projects
Buildings
Foundations
Mount Wilson Observatory
Trees
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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