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Title: Construction of the dome for the Hooker telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915-08-28
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: Construction of the dome for the Hooker telescope building, Mount Wilson Observatory. Installation of the inner sheathing and the brackets and ribs for the outer sheathing.
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 38
28035
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1355
Subject: Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Construction--California
Sheathing (Building Materials)
Brackets
Girders
Framing (Building)
Steel, Structural
Astronomical observatories
Observatories
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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