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Title: Exterior view of Griffith Observatory
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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 Griffith Park observatory and planetarium with the Astronomers Monument, designed by Archibald Garner. Three or four people can be seen on the roof near the dome (left side) of the solar telescope. A couple of other people are on the ground to the front and left of the monument in this view from the north. The observatory was built in 1935. Architects: John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010374
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Griffith Park-Observatory.; S-005-457 4x5
CARL0000012284
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84357
Subject: Griffith Observatory
Observatories--California--Los Angeles
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Ashley, Frederick M
Garner, Archibald
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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