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. View of the south faces of the west and central domes of the Griffith Observatory during construction with the skeleton of steel girders of the domes visible. Three workers are on the central dome and two workers are at the base of the drum next to wooden supports for concrete molds for the pilaster finials. Wooden scaffolding is visible along the tops of the central dome buttresses. The original concrete surface is visible; consistent with other similar architecture of the day, the Observatory's concrete walls were left unpainted in the 1930s and 1940s. The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter. Text from negative sleeve: L.A. Parks, Griffith - observatory Handwritten on negative: Griffith Pk. Planetarium
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6074 ark:/21198/zz002cw72q
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Planetaria--California--Los Angeles Science Education Astronomical observatories--California--Los Angeles Landmarks Griffith Observatory
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