Ceremony at the Griffith Observatory, perhaps the opening and dedication, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Ceremony at the Griffith Observatory, perhaps the opening and dedication, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- 1935
- Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter.
View of a ceremony at the Griffith Observatory, perhaps the opening and dedication, with portable wooden benches set up in front of the observatory. Officials stand in front of the art deco bronze entrance before a small audience. The concrete area in front of the Observatory has not been landscaped yet in this image.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
exterior views
news photographs - Names
- Griffith Observatory
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.118501
- Latitude
- -118.300533
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Building dedications--California--Los Angeles
Astronomical observatories--California--Los Angeles
Planetaria--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_6075
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cw737
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .