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$Dinsmore Alter shows a group of Arizona Boy Scouts the Zeiss refracting telescope at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1935$

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Title: Dinsmore Alter shows a group of Arizona Boy Scouts the Zeiss refracting telescope at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 15, 1935
1935-08-15
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dinsmore Alter, Director of the Griffith Observatory, talks to a group of Boy Scouts from Arizona. They are next to the Zeiss refracting telescope in the east dome of the newly constructed observatory.
Related to the article, "Boy Scouts of Arizona See Sights," Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 1935: A2.
Text from negative sleeve: 1693. Dr. Dinsmore Alter. With Arizona Boy Scouts. 8/15/35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10059
ark:/21198/zz002ddt9p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Telescopes--California--Los Angeles
Astronomical observatories--California--Los Angeles
Boy Scouts--California--Los Angeles County
Alter, Dinsmore, 1888-1968
Griffith Observatory
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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