An observer riding the elevator to the prime focus cage of the 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory. The prime focus cage is seen at the far left; the unidentified observer is seen approaching the cage. The interior walls of the observatory dome...
The collection consists of a small number of manuscripts by and about Gladstone, as well as photographs, engravings, prints and ephemera. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters by Gladstone, which deal mainly with British politics and...
An unidentified observer riding the elevator to the prime focus cage of the 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory. The interior walls of the observatory dome are seen in the background.
Bill Baum getting out of elevator and descending into 200-inch telescope prime focus cage, Palomar Observatory. Baum is climbing down from the elevating platform into the cage of the telescope. He is wearing a jacket and a hat.
Unidentified observer riding the elevating platform to the prime focus observing cage of 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory. The interior observatory walls are visible in the background.
Bill Baum inside the 200-inch telescope prime focus cage, drawing the dark-slide from the plateholder. Palomar Observatory. Baum is wearing a coat and a hat.
Observer riding elevator to prime focus observing cage of 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory. Hale observatories catalog no. 343 (with light under elevator washed out). The interior walls of the observatory dome are visible in the background.
Cutaway drawings by Russell Williams Porter: prime-focus observing position and pedestal supporting plateholder. Hale observatories catalog print no. 363. The drawing is titled: "The prime focus housing and pedestal, 200 inch telescope". The...
The Roy A. Anderson Papers, 1909-1995 (10 boxes) document the career and life of Anderson during the second half of the twentieth century, and the early history of Lockheed Corporation from the early 1900s into the 1990s. The collection is divided...