A monument to astronomy and to glass [picture].

Title: 
A monument to astronomy and to glass [picture].

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Publisher: 
Corning, N.Y. : Corning Glass Works, 1939.
Description: 
1 postcard : ill. ; 9 x 14 cm.
Other Authors: 
Corning Glass Works.
Format of Material: 
Ephemera
Bib ID: 
72421
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Location: 
Postcards
Call Number: 
Box D
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Notes: 
"Original 200-inch telescope disc, world's largest piece of glass and civic observatory museum where it is on exhibition. The disc which weighs twenty tons was poured at Corning Glass Works, March 25, 1934. The Museum was dedicated Sept. 2, 1939."