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Title
Distant view of Griffith Observatory, looking from the northwest across Hollywood, ca.1933(ca.1925?)
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a distant view of Griffith Observatory, looking from the northwest across Hollywood, ca.1933(ca.1925?). Griffith Observatory sits atop a mountain in the top left background of the photograph. A large shadow is cast over the valley in the bottom half of the image. Notation on back of photo says it is taken from Olive Hill, now Barnsdall Park, but notes indicate that this information is questionable. Back of photoprint indicates that the peak to the right of the the observatory may be Mount Hollywood.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
9 x 14 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2421
USC-0-1-1-2482 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41693
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2421
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41693.jpg
Subject
Griffith Observatory
Observatories--Griffith Observatory
Parks
Architecture
Buildings
Observatories
Dwellings
Research facilities
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Griffith Park
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41693 [Accession number]
CHS-41693 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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