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Early construction of the 60-foot tower adjacent to the Snow telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Early construction of the 60-foot tower adjacent to the Snow telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907-06-01
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: Early construction of the 60-foot tower adjacent to the Snow telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory. Two (2) unidentified construction workers stand near a wooden frame for the base of the tower. The clapboard sides of the Snow telescope building are to the right, behind the construction workers. Shrubs are in the surrounding area.
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 235
28232
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1068
Subject: Construction--California
Construction projects
Towers
Construction equipment
Construction workers--United States
Observatories
Astronomical observatories
Roofs
Shrubs
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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