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. People gather around a recently arrived freight train to see the 200-inch glass lens that traveled across the country. 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--- 200 inch lense [sic] at San Berdoo [sic] 4/9/36 [stamped:] APR 14 1936 Handwritten on negative: 200 inch lens 4/9/1936 at San Berdoo
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