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
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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. This photograph is possibly related to the article, “Train Crew Nervous Carrying Giant Lens,” Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 1936: 1, 2. 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 Handwritten on negative: L2R Nat Hudson x Dr. F. G. Pease x Fred Phillips x R. A. Podlech x H. A. Sugar 4/9/36
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14049 ark:/21198/zz002j7k02
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Astronomers--American--California--San Bernardino Optical devices Detectives Railroads--Freight-cars Railroad employees Pease, F. G. (Francis Gladheim), 1881- Phillips, Fred F., 1881-1973 Podlech, Rollin Augustus, 1881-1950 Sugar, H. A Hudson, Nathaniel Joy, 1870-1952
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