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Title: Construction of the dome for the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
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: Top section of main girder of 100-inch telescope dome being hoisted through shutter opening; view from inside dome structure. Three (3) construction workers are seen; one is standing on top of the girder being moved, one is to the side and the third is standing on the platform below the girder.
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 489
28486
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/644
Subject: Plate girders
Plates, Iron and steel
Girders
Building, Iron and steel
Construction projects
Construction workers--United States
Observatory domes
Framing (Building)
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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