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Title: Astronomer Dr. Mars Baumgardt, Los Angeles, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: This image appears with the article "Four Named to Park Body: Mayor Presents His Nominations to City Council," Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1939: 10. Dr. Mars Frederick Baumgardt was an optometrist and science lecturer. He served as president of the Southern California Academy of Science and of the Astronomical Society. He was also a director of the Clark Observatory, member of the Nature Club of Southern California, a State fire warden, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain.
Text from negative sleeve: Baumgardt, Mars Dr. USC.
Handwritten on negative: Dr. Mars Baumgardt
Text from newspaper caption: Park Nominations. Dr. Mars F. Baumgardt
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3692_G331
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Astronomers--American--California--Los Angeles
Baumgardt, Mars F., 1890-1950
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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