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Title: 200-inch telescope mirror on polishing machine
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
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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: 200- inch telescope mirror on polishing machine, with a picture of a model of Isaac Newton's first reflecting telescope in the mirror's central hole. A ladder is visible on the left-hand side of the photograph.
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 8X10 print; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 2560
30557
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/750
Subject: Mirrors
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Polishing wheels
Glass grinding and polishing
Grinding and polishing
Astronomical instruments
Ladders
Palomar Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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