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Title: Stoody Scope
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the exhibit "Over Our Heads: Los Angeles Goes From Stargazing to Moon Landing"
Two views of a man looking through the Stoody Scope, which was attached to the top of a V-8 automobile. The long telescope could be fastened down for transportation, and then cranked up into place for use. The scope was attached to a pole which ran through the middle of the car. It was manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Inc.
Type: Image
Format: 2 photographs :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046030
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Science-Astronomy.; N-003-525.1 4x5; N-003-525.2 4x5
CARL0000051060
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/102003
Subject: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Telescopes--California--Los Angeles
Inventions--California--Los Angeles

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