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Construction of the main floor of the 100-inch telescope foundation pier, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Construction of the main floor of the 100-inch telescope foundation pier, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
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: Construction of the main floor of the 100-inch telescope foundation pier, Mount Wilson Observatory. Four (4) unidentified construction workers are seen at teh far side of the floor, three of them are near wheeled carts. The formwork for the concrete floor is in place. Trees 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 482
28479
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1386
Subject: Construction--California
Construction workers--United States
Concrete construction--Formwork
Framing (Building)
Steel, Structural
Floors
Trees
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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