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Title: Lower section of 100-inch telescope tube on Observatory truck; trailer slightly off the road
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 on observatory truck; truck listing heavily to one side with right wheel off toll road. A large group of people are standing and watching the transportation of the telescope tube. A man with a camera on a tripod is in the foreground. Trees, shrubs and rocks can be seen on the mountainside adjacent to the road.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: COPC 1344
29341
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1285
Subject: Telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Mountain roads--California
Cameras
Tripods
Crowds
Trees
Shrubs
Rocks
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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