Image / William Baum at the guidescope of the 48-inch Schmidt camera, Palomar Observatory

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Title: William Baum at the guidescope of the 48-inch Schmidt camera, Palomar Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
1961
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1970
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: William "Bill" Baum at the guidescope of the 48-inch Schmidt camera, Palomar Observatory. Film positive is color. Baum is seated on an elevating chair platform. The photograph is taken within the observatory dome.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 2654
30651
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/776
Subject: Baum, William
Astronomers
Scientists
Cameras
Astronomical observatories
Palomar Observatory
Observatory domes
Interiors
Elevating platforms
Portrait photographs
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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