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Title: Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, in transport on Mount Wilson
Creator: Hughes, W. A
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-10-29
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: Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube in transport on Mount Wilson. Photo taken on road below Pasadena gap. Photo taken by W. A. Hughes. Several unidentified men ride on the truck with the telescope tube; in front of the tube is another vehicle with several more unidentified men as passengers. Rocks and shrubs surround the mountain road.
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; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 545
28542
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1426
Subject: Tubes
Steel, Structural
Trucks
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Mountain roads
Dirt roads
Rocks
Shrubs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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