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Title: Yerkes Observatory under construction, looking northeast
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896-08-20
1896-08-29
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: Yerkes Observatory under construction, looking northeast. The brick work for the first and second floors is complete, and about half of the steel girders are in place for the great dome. The base for the great dome is on the left, and the base of the southern small dome is on the right.
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: Black and white photograph; 19 x 24 cm
Identifier: Yerkes Observatory #014
44118
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/9
Subject: Yerkes Observatory
Observatory domes
Structural frames
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Williams Bay (Wis.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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