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Mayor Frank L. Shaw and Mabel Socha participate in the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Griffith Park Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Mayor Frank L. Shaw and Mabel Socha participate in the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Griffith Park Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: July 12, 1934
1934-07-12
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.
Mayor Frank L. Shaw and Mabel Socha, president of the Board of Park Commissioners, participate in the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Griffith Park Observatory. Both hold trowels. An unidentified man holding a top hat stands at the left of the photograph.
A different photograph of Mabel Socha and Mayor Shaw taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Park Hall's Stone Laid: Ceremonies at Observatory: Humanitarian Potentialities of Institution Hailed by Notable Speakers: Col. Griffith, Donor, Lauded; Mayor, Millikan and Others Present," Los Angeles Times, 13 Jul. 1934: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles Parks, Griffith Park Observatory Cornerstone Laying, 1934
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Mabel Socha, Mayor Shaw
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6063
ark:/21198/zz002cw6pj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Griffith Observatory
Socha, Mabel V., 1883-1966
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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