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Title: Mount Lowe Observatory
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: Exterior view of Mount Lowe Observatory at Echo Mountain.; Buildings at Echo Mountain, reached by the Mount Lowe Railway, included the Echo Mountain House, a 70-room hotel at an elevation of approximately 3500 ft., the 40-room Echo Chalet, the observatory, car barns, dormitories, repair facilities, and a casino/dance hall. A kitchen fire destroyed the Echo Mountain House in 1900. The observatory was commissioned by Thaddeus Lowe in 1893 and continued in operation until 1928 when a storm damaged the dome (not shown here). In 1900 Dr. Larkin replaced Dr. Lewis Swift as Observatory director.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00034956
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Mount Lowe-Observatories-Mount Lowe Observatory.; S-001-125 8x10
CARL0000037850
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/99120
Subject: Lowe Observatory (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Mountains--California, Southern
Observatories--California, Southern
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Mount Lowe Railway

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