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Title: Coupled-gear truck and horse teams on Mount Wilson toll road
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907-08-01
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: Coupled-gear truck and horse teams on bend of Mount Wilson toll road above Martin's camp water tunnel; they are carrying sections of the 60-foot tower telescope. Several unidentified men are standing along the road near the vehicles. Rocks, trees and shrubs are seen 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
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 1333
29330
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1004
Subject: Trucks
Horse-drawn vehicles
Horses
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Rocks
Shrubs
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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