A crowd surrounding the lower section of the 10-inch telescope tube, Mount Wilson Observatory. The tube section is loaded on the back fo a truck, which is surrounded by men and one woman, seated next to the driver.A portion of the observatory building is seen in the bacground; a portion of an exterior balcony and stairs can be seen jsut above the top of the tube section. Trees are in the background at the far right. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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