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$Installation of the first level of the piling onto the brick base for the 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory$

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Title: Installation of the first level of the piling onto the brick base for the 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896-09
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: Three (3) construction workers installing the first level of the piling onto the brick base for the 40 inch telescope, Yerkes Observatory. Two of the three men are identified as Charley Baker and John Angus.
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: Black and white photograph; 19 x 24.5 cm
Identifier: Yerkes Observatory #057
44165
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/86
Subject: Pedestals
Yerkes Observatory
Construction workers
Baker, Charley
Angus, John
Interiors
Large astronomical telescopes
Refracting telescopes
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Williams Bay (Wis.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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