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Edwin Powell Hubble receiving the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute, from Philip Clayton Staples



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  • Edwin Powell Hubble and Edward Curtis Franklin viewing fused quartz mirror for telescopes

    Edwin Powell Hubble and Edward Curtis Franklin viewing fused quartz mirror for telescopes

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    Edward Curtis Franklin and Edwin Powell Hubble, viewing fused quartz mirror for telescopes, at opening of session of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Associated Press caption for the photograph identifies the men and the event. Photograph by Associated Press

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  • Edwin Powell Hubble and Richard Chace Tolman, with model of the proposed 200-inch telescope for California

    Edwin Powell Hubble and Richard Chace Tolman, with model of the proposed 200-inch telescope for California

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    Edwin Powell Hubble and Richard Chace Tolman, with model of the proposed 200-inch telescope for California. Associated Press caption for the photograph identifies the men and the event. Associated Press photograph Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "EPH and Richard Tolman June 15, 1931"

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  • Group portrait of Franklin Institute Medal Day recipients : The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., Medal Day, Wednesday, May 17, 1939

    Group portrait of Franklin Institute Medal Day recipients : The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., Medal Day, Wednesday, May 17, 1939

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    Group portrait of Franklin Institute Medal recipients, including Edwin Powell Hubble, Franklin Institute Medal Day. The sixteen (16) men pictured are in two rows of eight, one row seated and one row standing behind the first row. The men are identified in a key mounted on the back of the photograph. The key is transcribed as follows: The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., Medal Day, Wednesday, May 17, 1939. Standing - left to right: Mr. E. Burke Wilford, President Pennsylvania Aircraft Syndicate, Phila. (Certificate of Merit) ; Professor Kalman John DeJuhasz (Levy Medalist) Associate Professor of Engineering Research Pennsylvania State College ; Dr. George Ashley Campbell (Cresson Medalist) American Telephone and Telegraph Co. ; Mr. Philip C. Staples, President, The Franklin Institute ; Dr. John R. Carson (Cresson Medalist), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. N.Y.C. ; Mr. M.W. Clement, President Pennsylvania Railroad, Received Henderson Medal for Ralph Budd, President, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., Chicago, Ill. ; Mr. Frederick Watson - British Consul General, Received Cresson Medal for Sir Charles Vernon Boys, F.R.S., LL.D., London, England ; Dr. John Strong (Longstreth Medalist), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California ; Seated - left to right: Dr. Percy Russell, Wilmington, Delaware (Certificate of Merit) ; Dr. Robley Cook Williams, University of Michigan (Longstreth Medalist), Ann Arbor, Michigan ; Dr. H. Jermain Creighton (Potts Medalist), Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania ; Dr. Newcomb K. Chaney (Potts Medalist), United Gas Improvement Company ; Dr. Edwin Hubble (Franklin Medalist), Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California ; Mr. William A. Hyde (Wetherill Medalist), Leon J. Barrett Co., Worcester, Massachusetts ; Dr. Arthur C. Hardy (Longstreth Medalist), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Dr. Jesse E. Stareck (Longstreth Medalist), United Chromium, Inc., Waterbury, Connecticut.

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    2 of Edwin Powell Hubble [with others] at award of Franklin Medal

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    The papers of Edwin P. Hubble include manuscripts and reprints of his articles, papers, public lectures, addresses, etc., scientific documentation for his papers, logbooks of photographic plates taken by Hubble at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, diaries and biographical memoirs of his wife Grace Burke Hubble, professional, personal, and social correspondence, photographs, medals and awards, a scrapbook assembled by Grace Hubble, newspaper clippings, etc.

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    Diplomas and other citations received by Edwin Powell Hubble

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    The papers of Edwin P. Hubble include manuscripts and reprints of his articles, papers, public lectures, addresses, etc., scientific documentation for his papers, logbooks of photographic plates taken by Hubble at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, diaries and biographical memoirs of his wife Grace Burke Hubble, professional, personal, and social correspondence, photographs, medals and awards, a scrapbook assembled by Grace Hubble, newspaper clippings, etc.

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  • Edwin Powell Hubble, holding a photograph of a galaxy

    Edwin Powell Hubble, holding a photograph of a galaxy

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    Edwin Powell Hubble at desk, holding a photograph of a galaxy, and looking at the camera.

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