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Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, outside Mount Wilson Observatory's offices, Pasadena

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Title: Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, outside Mount Wilson Observatory's offices, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-10-28
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: Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, mounted on a truck outside of Mount Wilson Observatory's offices, Pasadena. Five (5) unidentified men and a dog pose on and in front of the tube on the truck. One of the men seated in the truck is wearing coveralls; another is wearing a suit. All of the men are wearing hats. Next to the truck and tube is an exterior brick wall of the office building; a folded awning is above the window. A utility pole is between the wall and the truck.
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; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 543
28540
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1424
Subject: Tubes
Steel, Structural
Trucks
Men--California--Pasadena--Photographs
Dogs
Suits (Clothing)
Coveralls
Hats
Brickwork
Walls
Windows
Awnings
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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