View of Lick Observatory from the east. In the center of the image at the top of the hill stands the Old Dormitory. Behind the dormitory the Main Building is visible. Leading to the dormitory is a "steep path of cleated boards, known as the 'chicken-walk,' which leads from the roadway to the dormitory. From: "The Astronomical Fraternity of the World, Part XIII." http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1935PA.....43..133P/0000144.000.html (Accessed 02/03/11). The Lick Observatory building was designed by architect S.E. Todd of Washington, DC, in the Italian Renaissance style with the use of deep entablatures and moldings, and a pediment over the west door. The construction of the Lick Observatory building began in January 1880 under the direction of Thomas Fraser, James Lick's agent... To level the top of Mount Hamilton, Fraser had the top thirty feet of the mountain removed with black powder explosives. Workers then moved, by hand, an estimated 40 thousand tons of rock they had loosened. Masons built a kiln next to a clay bed near the summit and fired the bricks for the building. All of the heavy materials for the dome and telescope mounting were hauled up the mountain by wagon team and lifted into place with simple mechanical aids. http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4b.htm Source for description field: The astronomical fraternity of the world, Part XIII Authors: Pickering, David B. Publication: Popular Astronomy, Vol. 43, p.144 Publication Date: 00/1935 Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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