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Title: View of the Astronomers Monument
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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: Located on the lawn of the Griffith Park Observatory, the Astronomers Monument, designed by Archibald Garner, honors six of the greatest astronomers of all time: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Herschel. Only 3 of the figures are visible at any one time. This view was taken looking from the observatory steps.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :col
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010330
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Griffith Observatory.; N-002-855.5 8x10
CARL0000012269
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84346
Subject: Griffith Observatory
Observatories--California--Los Angeles
Garner, Archibald
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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