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Installation of fist upper section to the lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Installation of fist upper section to the lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916-11
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 first upper section to the lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, Mount Wilson Observatory. The base of the fork mount is seen in the lower right-hand corner of the photograph. The interior walls of the observatory dome 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 550
28547
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1430
Subject: Tubes
Steel, Structural
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Walls
Interiors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Observatories
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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