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Portions of the mount for the 60-inch telescope, in the workshop at Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena location

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Title: Portions of the mount for the 60-inch telescope, in the workshop at Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena location
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907
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: Parts of the 60-inch telescope mount in the Pasadena erecting house for Mount Wilson Observatory. The traveling crane is easily visible. An unidentified man stands among the metal parts of the mount.
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 306
28303
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1112
Subject: Pedestals
Large astronomical telescopes
Telescopes
Machinery
Cranes, derricks, etc
Corrugated sheet metal
Workshops
Ladders
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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