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Title: Polar axle of the 60-inch telescope being transported on a truck, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908-07
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: Polar axle of the 60-inch telescope on 5-ton electric truck for transport to Mount Wilson. Four unidentified men are on the truck; two in the front of the vehicle and two in the back with the axle. Behind the truck is one of Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena office buildings.
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 312
28309
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1118
Subject: Axles
Trucks
Office buildings--California--Pasadena
Windows
Streets--California--Pasadena
Curbs
Sidewalks
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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