Photograph of a newspaper clipping showing an astronomer riding an elevator to prime focus cage of 200-inch Hale telescope, Palomar Observatory. The caption below the image reads: "The 200-inch Hale Telescope of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. An astronomer is riding the special elevator to the observing cage at the upper end of the tube in preparation for a night's work. He actually rides the telescope while taking photographs". Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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