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200-inch, 20-ton lens for the future Hale Telescope, after its arrival in Pasadena, CA. Circa April 10, 1936.

Description:
The 20-ton, 200-inch lens for what would be the Hale Telescope after its arrival in Pasadena, CA, following a cross-country rail trip from Corning, NY. The giant waffle-patterned lens was made from Pyrex, then a new material, by the Corning Glass Works company. Astronomer George Ellery Hale, one of the founders of the California Institute of Technology, secured a $6 million grant from the Rockefeller Institute to build both an observatory and a telescope with a 200-inch primary mirror, to be administered through Cal Tech. Hale built his observatory on Mt. Palomar in San Diego County, 90 miles southeast from the Mt. Wilson observatory in Pasadena, which Hale had also founded in 1904. Construction of the Hale telescope was delayed by World War II, and the telescope did not see its first light until January 26, 1949. George Hale died in 1938, and thus did not see the telescope that bears his name completed.
Date:
[circa April 10, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
200-inch, 20-ton lens for the future Hale Telescope, after its arrival in Pasadena, CA. Circa April 10, 1936.

Alice Pheland and B. F. Enyeart pose in front of the Burbank City Schools' Tournament of Roses parade float framework, Pasadena vicinity, about 1936

Description:
At center, from left to right, Alice Phelan and B. F. Enyeart, Burbank Schools Superintendent, pose in front of the framework for the Burbank City Schools' float entry into the Tournament of Roses. They both stand in profile, facing left, but turn their heads towards camera. Alice Phelan holds onto the framework behind her as she casts her gaze downward. The incomplete float stands in partial view behind them. Its design appears to emulate tracery and stained glass elements seen in Gothic architecture.
Date:
[circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Alice Pheland and B. F. Enyeart pose in front of the Burbank City Schools' Tournament of Roses parade float framework, Pasadena vicinity, about 1936

"Birth of the American Flag" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Description:
"Birth of the American Flag" with Betsy Ross (actress Priscilla Lawson) working on one section of the flag. The float was submitted by the city of North Hollywood. The float is passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:
January 1, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Snyder, Bill
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
"Birth of the American Flag" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

"China Clipper" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Description:
Float representing the China clipper airplane with 'Los Angeles' and 'China Clipper' written on it viewed by crowd to celebrate Los Angeles Pacific air connections. Riding that float are Mariella Ferguson in Spanish costume at the front, and Virginia Grondahl in Hawaiian costume at the back
Date:
January 1, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Snyder, Bill
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
"China Clipper" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936