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Title: Building site for the Hooker Reflecting telescope, 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: Building site for the Hooker reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. Installation of the concrete footings for the building. Photographed from the 150-foot tower telescope. A few construction workers are visible on the work site, as well as several wooden sheds. Trees surround the construction area; 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
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 26
28023
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/548
Subject: Construction projects
Construction equipment
Construction workers
Building--California
Sheds
Astronomical observatories
Mount Wilson Observatory
Trees
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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