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Royal Observatory Greenwich – postcard collection
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Estimated date
 1948?
Publisher
 F. Frith & Co., Ltd
Publisher's title
 The Royal Naval College. Greenwich.
Nominal size
 5.5 x 3.5 inches (real photograph)
Publisher/printer ref.
 GCH.17.
Website ref.
 PC0827
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© F. Frith Ltd. The covering of the Great Equatorial Dome is damaged, but still in situ. The apparent absence of any tarpaulins over the damaged areas, suggest that the photo was was taken soon after the telescope had been removed at the end of 1947, but before the dome was stripped of its covering.
 

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