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Title: Completed foundation pier for the 100-inch telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
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: Completed foundation pier for the 100-inch telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory. As seen from the northwest. Steel structural framing surrounds the concrete telescope pier. Steel rods are on the ground in the foreground. The support brackets are clearly seen near the top of the concrete foundation.
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 471
28468
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1375
Subject: Foundations--Design and construction
Concrete construction
Brackets
Construction--California
Observatories
Astronomical observatories
Steel, Structural
Steel framing (Building)
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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