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Floyd Day polishing the Palomar 60-inch quartz disk at Hale Observatories' Pasadena machine shop

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Title: Floyd Day polishing the Palomar 60-inch quartz disk at Hale Observatories' Pasadena machine shop
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969-04
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: Floyd Day polishing the Palomar 60-inch quartz disk at Hale Observatories' Pasadena machine shop. Day is seen at the far right, seated in a chair next to the polishing wheel. The polishing machine is above the disk.
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 5X7 film neg; 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 2160
30157
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/2062
Subject: Quartz
Grinding and polishing
Polishing wheels
Day, Floyd
Machinists
Machines
Machine shops
Interiors
Chairs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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