Observer riding elevator to prime focus observing cage of 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory. Hale observatories catalog no. 343 (with light under elevator washed out). The interior walls of the observatory dome are visible in the background. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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