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Photograph (Postcard) of the Radcliffe Observatory, 1930s.

Inventory Number 15613


Item type
Object
Provenance
Donated by Anne Charles and Peter Knox-Shaw on 21st February 2018.
Inventory No
15613
Accession Number
2018-3

Description

Shows the tower, the Observer’s House and the small dome (formerly containing the ‘heliometer’, a special telescope for precision angular measurement).

Owned and possibly photographed by Harold Knox-Shaw.