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Title: Workman installing support elements into the back of the 200-inch telescope mirror
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
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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: Workman installing support elements into pockets on the back of the 200-inch telescope mirror in Caltech optical shop. Hale observatories catalog no. 338.
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 film neg; 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 2588
30585
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/753
Subject: Mirrors
Construction workers
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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