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Marjorie Hunter receives output from a new seismograph at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Marjorie Hunter receives output from a new seismograph at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 19, 1935
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Hunter stands beside the new seismograph at the Griffith Observatory, holding the slip of paper it's producing.
This photograph appears with the article, "Temblors Reproduced by Device," Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1935: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 1372-- L to R Marjorie Hunter Model Seismograph [stamped:] JUL 31 1935
Handwritten on negative: Marjorie Hunter 7-19-35
Text from newspaper caption: earthquake's Autograph Shown; Marjorie Hunter is receiving from the model seismograph a strip of marked paper which reveals the moments of the earth during an earthquake. The model is at the Griffith Observatory.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7887
ark:/21198/zz002dfntg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Seismometers
Women--California--Los Angeles
Astronomical observatories--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Observatory
Hunter, Marjorie
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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