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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 north entrance of Griffith observatory and planetarium on a clear sunny day with visitors strolling and employees edging the grass. Federal Writers' Project is stamped on the back of the photograph and the date July 17, 1939 is in ink. Observatory was built in 1935. Architects: John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010380
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2198 4x5; WPA 1014 8x10
CARL0000012215
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1604
Subject: 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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