Paul Scherer, Mary Sandage, Margaret Hale Scherer, and Allan Sandage outside the Oscar G. Mayer memorial building at the dedication of the 60-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory. Paul Scherer and Allan Sandage are wearing suits; Mary Sandage is wearing a pantsuit and Margaret Hale Scherer is wearing a plaid skirt under her coat. A low concrete wall and trees are seen behind them. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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