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Title: Partially constructed 100-inch telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915-07
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: Partially constructed 100-inch telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory. The main girder for the top of the domed frame is being hoisted in through the shutter opening. The steel stramework of the dome is visible, below that some of the metal sheathing is seen. The ground-level door is open. Trees surround the observatory building.
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 490
28487
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1389
Subject: Observatory domes--Design and construction
Construction--California
Steel framing (Building)
Steel, Structural
Sheathing (Building Materials)
Doorways
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Observatories
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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