Image / Bill Baum descending into the 200-inch telescope prime focus cage, Palomar Observatory

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Title: Bill Baum descending into the 200-inch telescope prime focus cage, Palomar Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956-02
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: Bill Baum getting out of elevator and descending into 200-inch telescope prime focus cage, Palomar Observatory. Baum is climbing down from the elevating platform into the cage of the telescope. He is wearing a jacket and a hat.
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; 1 4X5 film neg; 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 2021
30018
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1968
Subject: Baum, Bill
Astronomers
Scientists
Large astronomical telescopes
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Palomar Observatory
Elevating platforms
Hats
Coats
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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