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Preparing a lifting device for moving the 100-inch telescope mirror, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Preparing a lifting device for moving the 100-inch telescope mirror, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935-03-01
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: Preparing a lifting device for moving the 100-inch telescope mirror, Mount Wilson Observatory. An unidentified man is seen attaching a chain to a large hook suspended from the hoisting device, attaching a frame to the hook.
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 4X5 B/W print; 1 4X5 film neg
Identifier: COPC 634
28631
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1681
Subject: Hoisting machinery
Mirrors
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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