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Title: Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, in transport on Mount Wilson
Creator: Hughes, W.A
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-10-29
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: Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, in transport on Mount Wilson. Several unidentified men are moving telephone wires out of the way. Original photo by W. A. Hughes, 938 Hinton Ave., Los Angeles, California. The tube section is mounted on the back of a truck, which is seen stopped on a Mount Wilson road. The telephone pole is seen in the background, behind the truck. Shrubs and rocks cover the surrounding hillside.
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; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 546
28543
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1427
Subject: Tubes
Steel, Structural
Trucks
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Shrubs
Rocks
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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