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Title: Construction of the 60-inch telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907-09
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 60-inch telescope building as seen from future site of 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory. The 60-foot tower telescope is visible behind the 60-inch framework. Trees 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/tiff
Identifier: COPC 286
28283
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1093
Subject: Construction--California
Construction projects
Construction equipment
Towers
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Scaffolding
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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