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Installation of a section of the main girder for the 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Installation of a section of the main girder for the 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
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: Installation of the top section of main girder of 100-inch telescope dome being hoisted through shutter opening; view from inside dome structure, Mount Wilson Observatory. Three (3) construction workers are posed on and around the girder. The structural beams of the observatory dome are visible, as is a portion of the circular platform. Trees are visible 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
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 488
28485
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/643
Subject: Girders
Plate girders
Plates, Iron and steel
Building, Iron and steel
Construction workers--United States
Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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