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Title: Upper section of the 100-inch telescope tube approaching Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-09-12
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: Upper section of the 100-inch telescope tube approaching Mount Wilson Observatory. The tube section is mounted on a truck. The photograph was taken from the 150-foot observatory tower. The dome of the 100-inch telescope building is seen in the background. Trees surround the road and building.
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 551
28548
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1431
Subject: Tubes
Steel, Structural
Trucks
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Observatory domes
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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