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Cutaway drawing of the 200-inch telescope mirror, cell and support system, drawn by Russell W. Porter

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Title: Cutaway drawing of the 200-inch telescope mirror, cell and support system, drawn by Russell W. Porter
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
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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: Cutaway drawing by Russell W. Porter: view of the 200-inch telescope's mirror, cell, support system, and mirror cover. Hale observatories catalog print no. 360. The drawing is titled: "Two hundred inch mirror, cell, support & cover". The scale of the drawing to the actual piece is given in the lower left-hand corner of the drawing.
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 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 2555
30552
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/745
Subject: Telescopes--Drawings
Mirrors--Drawings
Technical drawings
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Drawings. (gmgpc)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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