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Installation of reinforcing rods in the floor of the observatory dome floor, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Installation of reinforcing rods in the floor of the observatory dome floor, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
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 reinforcing rods in the floor of the 100-inch telescope observatory dome, Mount Wilson Observatory. A construction worker is standing at the far end of the floor area, with parts of some of the construction equipment nearby. The steel rods and construction lumber are in the foreground.
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 468
28465
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/630
Subject: Bars (Engineering)
Cranes, derricks, etc
Hoisting machinery
Construction projects
Construction equipment
Construction workers--United States
Lumber
Observatory domes
Astronomical observatories
Mount Wilson Observatory
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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