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Title: Griffith Observatory under construction
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated May 29, 1934 reads, "Here is the latest close-up view of the Griffith Observatory. Photo shows the front elevation of the $250,000 structure, which opens onto a wide parking area."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00115442
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 257
CARL0005309558
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31587
Subject: Griffith Observatory
Observatories--California--Los Angeles
Building construction--California--Los Angeles
Construction workers--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Ashley, Frederick M

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