Image / Drawing of the 200-inch telescope, looking East, by Russell W. Porter

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Title: Drawing of the 200-inch telescope, looking East, by Russell W. Porter
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
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: Cutaway drawings by Russell W. Porter: the 200-inch telescope viewed from the west, showing cassegrain observing platform in position. Hale observatories catalog print no. 364. The title on the drawing reads: The 200-inch telescope looking East". The telescope is shown inside the observatory dome, Palomar Observatory.
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 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 2559
30556
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/749
Subject: Telescopes--Drawings
Porter, Russell Williams, 1871-1949
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Astronomical observatories
Observatory domes
Interiors
Drawings. (gmgpc)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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