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Title: 8-ton float for the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-07-24
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: 8-ton float for the 100-inch telescope, on south pedestal, Mount Wilson Observatory. Lumber and other construction debris can be seen in the area surrounding the float. The interior balcony is behind the round float; the interior walls are behind the balcony.
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 535
28532
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1414
Subject: Pedestals
Astronomical instruments
Telescopes
Lumber
Balconies
Walls
Interiors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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