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Title: Completed 100-inch telescope foundation pier, 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 100-inch telescope foundation pier with construction of building framework surrounding it, as seen from the northwest, Mount Wilson Observatory. The concrete brackets are clearly visible. Steel framing surrounds the concrete pier.
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 473
28470
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1377
Subject: Foundations--Design and Construction
Concrete construction
Brackets
Steel framing (Building)
Steel, Structural
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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