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Title: Observatory in Griffith Park
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: Exterior view of telescope housing (dome) of the Griffith Park observatory. December 13, 1939 appears on back of the photo. The style is classical moderne. Built in 1935. Architects: John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010361
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (8123); L.A.-Parks-Griffith Observatory.
CARL0000012201
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84280
Subject: Griffith Observatory
Observatories--California--Los Angeles
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Ashley, Frederick M
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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