I just dug up this picture from my personal archive. It's from a December 11, 1960 newspaper article about Tom Cave the Mars observer. He is shown at the eyepiece of his personal scope, a 12-inch Newt. mounted in his backyard observatory. (I'm pretty sure that Alika Herring made the mirror.)

I had the privilege of looking thru it on one or two occasions in the 1958-1960 timeframe when I was a guest at one of the meetings of the Excelsior Telescope Club held at Tom's home in Long Beach, California.

Note the mount: it is not an Astrola but appears to be a Bill Schaefer designed and built equatorial head - correct me if I'm wrong. (Also note the telephone wires strung over Tom's backyard!)

This scope was something like an f/7 or f/8, so Tom needed a stepladder or observing platform to reach the eyepiece. In this photo, he is seated on his observing platform for comfortable viewing.