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Title: Huge telescope mirror
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the exhibit "Over Our Heads: Los Angeles Goes From Stargazing to Moon Landing"
A giant mirror, 120 inches in diameter, arrives by railroad car from the Corning Glass Works for a Cal Tech telescope. The address is 316 Commercial Street, Los Angeles. The shipper appears to be the Ducommun Corp. The location is next door to the L.A. Warehouse Co.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046031
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Science-Astronomy.; N-003-449 4x5
CARL0000051066
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/102009
Subject: California Institute of Technology
Astronomy
Telescopes--California--Los Angeles
Mirrors--California--Los Angeles

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