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Title: Panorama of Griffith Observatory and vicinity
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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 Griffith Observatory in Griffith Park, looking southeast with the city down below in the background. The observatory was built in 1935 and designed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley. July 21, 1937.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069091
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1521-A 4x5; WPA 1521-B 4x5
CARL0000072881
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2503
Subject: Griffith Observatory
Observatories--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Ashley, Frederick M

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