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Title
Lens grinding, Cal Tech
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
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
Grinding the lens for Mt. Palomar Observatory, California Institute of Technology. Photo dated: November 28, 1938.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00036241
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (9416); Pasadena-Universities and colleges-Cal Tech.
CARL0000039063
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97327
Subject
California Institute of Technology
Universities and colleges--California--Pasadena
Lenses
Grinding and polishing
Grinding machines
Pasadena (Calif.)

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