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Title: Parts of the 60-inch telescope mount in Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena workshop
Date Created and/or Issued: 1907
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: Parts of 60-inch telescope mount in Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena erecting house. The traveling crane is easily visible. A ladder rises from the lower floor to the landing underneath the telescope mount. The interior walls of the building are seen; windows on the left-hand side and corrugated metal on the right.
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 311
28308
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1117
Subject: Pedestals
Cranes, derricks, etc
Large astronomical telescopes
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Workshops
Interiors
Windows
Corrugated sheet metal
Ladders
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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