Giant 200-inch telescope lens arrives from New York to San Bernardino, 1936

Title: Giant 200-inch telescope lens arrives from New York to San Bernardino, 1936
Date Created: April 9, 1936
Date: 1936-04-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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.
People gather around the recently arrived freight train to see the 200-inch glass lens that traveled across the country. The lens is partially obscured by a billboard that says, "200" Telescope Disc made by Corning Glass Works, Corning, NY." "PYREX" is written across the curve on top of the lens.
This photograph is possibly related to the article, “Train Crew Nervous Carrying Giant Lens,” Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 1936: 1, 2.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: 200 inch lens arrives San Berdoo 4/9/36

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: San Bernardino (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Railroad freight cars--California--San Bernardino
Optical devices
Railroad tracks--California--San Bernardino

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14047
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7jxj
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