Palomar Observatory, San Diego County, CA

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $14.95

Stock #:1169691
Type: Postcard
Era: Chrome
City: Palomar Mountain
State: California (CA)
County: San Diego
Publisher: Mike Roberts Studios
Hopkins News Agency
Postmark: 1928 Aug-31
Postmark City: San Diego
Postmark State: CA
Stamp: 1c Washington
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Publisher's Series #: C1201
Recipient Address:Mrs. Margaret D. Chaney
90 W. Portland St
Phoenix, AZ
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On Palomar Mountain, 69 miles north of San Diego, is the largest astronomical observatory in the world. Engineers at the California Institute of Technology spent many years in the grinding and polishing of the great 200-inch mirror lens, the largest reflector known to man. This observatory consists of seven buildings, costing over $6,000,000.00.

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