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Title: Observatory in Griffith Park
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: View of the Griffith Park observatory and planetarium with the Astronomers Monument, designed by Archibald Garner. Architects: John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley, built in 1935.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010379
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 8026 4x5; A-009-744 4x5
CARL0000012214
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1602
Subject: Griffith Observatory
Observatories--California--Los Angeles
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Ashley, Frederick M
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Garner, Archibald

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