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Title: Construction of Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena optical laboratory and office building
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905
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 Mount Wilson Observatory's Pasadena office & shop building. Construction of exterior brick walls. Construction workers stand amidst the construction, with some equipment in the area. Behind the construction site is a small wooden house. Trees and the San Gabriel Mountains are in the background.
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 1732
29729
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/525
Subject: Construction
Construction projects
Construction workers--United States
Building, Brick
Construction equipment
Dwellings--California--Pasadena
Trees
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Pasadena (Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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