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Title: Observatory in Griffith Park
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: View of the planetarium and observatory in Griffith Park photographed from Cataline Ave. below. Federal Writers' Project is stamped on the back of the photo along with the date 1939? in pencil. The observatory was built in 1935. Architects: John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010340
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9405 4x5
CARL0000012191
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1603
Subject: Griffith Observatory
Observatories--California--Los Angeles
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ashley, Frederick M

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