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Tube of the 60-inch telescope being transported up a road on Mount Wilson

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Title: Tube of the 60-inch telescope being transported up a road on Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908
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: Tube of the 60-inch telescope being transported up a road on Mount Wilson. The metal tube is being transported on a horse-drawn cart. Shrubs, rocks and trees are visible in the area surrounding the mountain road.
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 1387
29384
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/430
Subject: Astronomical instruments
Telescopes
Horse-drawn vehicles
Horses--Transportation
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Trees
Rocks
Shrubs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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