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Title: Astronomers Monument, Griffith Observatory
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: Northeastern view of the Astronomers Monument, located on the front lawn of Griffith Observatory. Around the monument, designed by Archibald Garner, are the likenesses of 6 astronomers: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Herschel. September 13, 1937.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :col
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064723
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1537 4x5
CARL0000068739
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2576
Subject: Griffith Observatory
Astronomers--Statues--California--Los Angeles
Observatories--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Garner, Archibald

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