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Title: Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1958
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Manouvering the second dish onto its tower. used by permission.

Title: Hugo Benioff with fused-quartz extensometer
Format: photograph: negative
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: This instrument was designed to measure the tidal strains of the earth produced by the gravitational action of the sun and moon. It also could record ultra-long seismic waves and the possible free oscillation of the earth. This photo is probably taken at an installation in Santiago, Chile. See Engineering & Science, October 1957.

Title: John Anderson and Byron Hill leaving plane
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1939-05-11
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: First flight to Palomar.

Title: Bill Dreyer’s lab
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1964
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Pouring concrete slab of the observing floor of the 200″ dome
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936-12-20
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: 120″ mirror as seen through the edge of the disc
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Virus Conference
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: For legend see back of photo. Biology.

Title: Frits Went
Format: photograph: negative
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Cornelis Wiersma
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1968-11
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: 48″ Schmidt--exterior view with shutters open
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1940-10-05
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: William B. Munro
Format: photograph: negative
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Portraiture by Carl A. Gist (from the 1931 Big T). Humanities.

Title: Cutaway diagram of the 60″ photometric telescope building at Palomar Observatory
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1966-05
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Caltech-Armed Forces meteorology training course
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Demonstration in handling and transporting of Kew-type mercurial barometer. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)

Title: Arthur Galston attending lecture
Format: photograph: negative
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Mt. Wilson comparator, side view
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1961-07-28
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Findlay Russell
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1998
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: James J. Morgan receiving the 1999 Stockholm Water Prize
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1999-08-12
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Prize was presented by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden. First awarded in 1991, the prize recognizes outstanding efforts on behalf of the world’s water resources. The 1999 prize was awarded jointly to Morgan and Werner Strumm, Switzerland (deceased). Engineering and Applied Science.

Title: Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1958
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: John Bolton using the theodolite to check a section for the second dish. used by permission.

Title: Torch cutting phantom dome parts
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1947-08-06
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Tom Mathews, Tiny Gates and Al Munger inspect an antenna jack screw. used by permission.

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