US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph is possibly related to the article, “Train Crew Nervous Carrying Giant Lens,” Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 1936: 1, 2. R. A. Podlech, the train’s freight-master, inspects the giant lens as spectators watch. The heavily guarded 200-inch telescope mirror arrived on a custom built freight car from Corning, New York to Southern California where it will be housed at the California Institute of Technology. Handwritten on negative: R. A. Podlech 4/9/36 Text from negative sleeve: 4793 --- Left to right are Nat Hudson, Dr. F. G. Pease, associate in optics as Caltech; Fred Phillips, chief special railroad detective, who had four assistants to guide the train; P. A. Podlech, freight-master who supervised the routing of the train; and H. A. Sugar. The train was examined by the detectives after every stop and guarded day and night against vandalism by hobos or cranks. Times photo. [handwritten:] 200 inch lense [sic] arrives in San Berdoo [sic] 4/9/36 [stamped APR 14 1936
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