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Title: Dr. W. F. Meyer looks through the Griffith Observatory's Zeiss refracting telescope telescope, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: May 6, 1935
1935-05-06
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dr. W. F. Meyer, who had just been named associate director of the Griffith Observatory looks through the Zeiss refracting telescope in the east dome.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Planetarium Aides Chosen: More Scientists Added to Griffith Observatory," 7 May 1935: A1.
Handwritten on negative: Dr. W.F. Meyer 5-6-35
Text from negative sleeve: Fox, Philip, Dr.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4755
ark:/21198/zz002ctnkc
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Telescopes--California--Los Angeles
Astronomers--American--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Observatory
Meyer, William F., 1882-1973
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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