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[L. Temple Larrabee photograph collection pertaining to Hat Creek Radio Observatory].
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[L. Temple Larrabee photograph collection pertaining to Hat Creek Radio Observatory]Creator/Contributor:
Larrabee, L. Temple, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Philco Corporation, author.Abstract:
Chiefly professional quality views of the Hat Creek Radio Observatory complex taken during its construction and the early
years of its operation as an astronomical research unit affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. Topics of
photographic prints include the radio telescope; various buildings, machinery and other aspects of the observatory facilities;
and the surrounding landscape. Oversize folder (B) contains 1 print depicting an unnamed building during construction. Also
includes 2 news releases issued in 1962 by Philco Corporation, the designer and manufacturer of the radio telescope; an incomplete
media information kit (from 1961?) also issued by Philco; and an annotated 1959 typescript specifications report on the construction
of the radio telescope. Topics of negatives, taken 1959-1961, include construction of dishes and a telescope, aerial views
of the surrounding Hat Creek Valley area, and a few unidentified subjects.
Date:
1955 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caHat Creek Radio Observatory -- Photographs
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Astronomy.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Radio Astronomy Laboratory -- Photographs
Radio astronomy observatories -- California -- Shasta County -- Photographs
Radio telescopes -- California -- Shasta County -- Photographs
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Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by L. Temple Larrabee, who may have been one of the photographers. Per donor's communication, some photographs may
also have been taken by Mark Hodges, a colleague of Larrabee who was associated with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory.
Also includes 2 folders of news releases, a typescript specifications document and a media information kit.
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L. Temple Larrabee photograph collection pertaining to Hat Creek Radio Observatory, BANC PIC 2019.043, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
L. Temple Larrabee was a radio astronomy engineer affiliated with CalTech and the University of California, Berkeley in the
1950s and 1960s, specifically the Palomar Observatory, Owens Valley Radio Observatory and the Hat Creek Radio Observatory.
Hat Creek Radio Observatory was founded in the late 1950s by the Radio Astronomy Laboratory, a research unit affiliated with
the Department of Astronomy of the University of California, Berkeley, who managed the facility until 2012, when the site
was taken over by SRI International.
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graphicPhysical Description:
photonegative
photoprint
approximately 205 photographs in 1 box and 1 oversize folder : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 21 x 26 cm or smaller
approximately 125 photographs : safety film negatives ; 35mm (roll format)
Language:
English
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