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Title: Construction of a water reservoir, Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911-06-27
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: Construction of a water reservoir, Mount Wilson. Several unidentified construction workers stand near the formwork for the concrete foundation. The concerete mixer is seen on higher ground, above the construction site.
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
Identifier: COPC 887
28884
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1441
Subject: Construction workers--United States
Concrete construction--Formwork
Concrete construction
Concrete mixers
Shovels
Construction projects
Construction equipment
Reservoirs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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