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Title: The 200-inch dome
Format: drawing
Date: 1936

Title: Crossing the Desert, April 9, Anno Dom. 1936
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1936
Description: Perspective drawing looking up embankment of train transporting 200-inch mirror disc. Pencil on paper, 11.5 x 7.75 inches, mounted on board, 12.5 x 10.25 inches. Signed R.W.P, dated 1936. Palomar. Porter Papers.

Title: Untitled drawing
Format: drawing
Date: 1936
Description: Palomar. Photographic print has title “Tentative sketch of the 200-inch telescope” and description in George Ellery Hale’s hand on reverse.

Title: Changing Observers at the Prime Focus, 200-inch Telescope
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1936
Description: Perspective drawing showing observers entering and leaving enclosed capsule on spherical truss mount. Pencil, ink and chalk [?] on board, 10.5 x 8.75 inches. Signed R.W. Porter, dated 1936. Palomar. Porter Papers.

Title: Russell Porter and John Anderson at Palomar
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Pump lab crew
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Edward Simmons is on the far left in the front row. Engineering and Applied Science.

Title: Dome housing for the 18″ reflector Schmidt-type telescope
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Robert A. Millikan, floating
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1936
Series: Individuals
Description: A .A. Cahill pastel which formerly hung in the basement of the Athenaeum. Used on the cover of the Guide to the Microfiche Edition of the Robert A. Millikan Collection.

Title: Rendering of 200″ dome by Russell W. Porter
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: GALCIT-Project No. l rocket test team
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1936
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: L-R: Rudolph Schott, Apollo M.O. Smith, Frank J. Malina, Edward S. Forman, John W. Parsons. Photo was taken at the site of a rocket test stand in the Arroyo Seco of Pasadena.

Title: Carl D. Anderson receiving Nobel Prize
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1936
Series: Individuals, Anderson, Carl D.

Title: Experimental Radio Station W6XKY
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Used for communication between Palomar Mountain and the Caltech campus. Palomar. Watterson Collection.

Title: Russell Porter and John Anderson at Palomar
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: pH meter, Model M
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936
Description: Industrial model. Serial no. not shown. CIT Division of Chemistry inventory label #2260. Manufacturer: National Technical Laboratories. Very similar to ST-BE-03, but lacks lid and side door as well as hinges and latch. Wood case has been stripped.

Title: Mirror preparation in the CIT Optical Shop
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1936
Series: Academic Divisions