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Description:: 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.
Date:: [circa 1934-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Peirson Mitchell Hall was an attorney in the Los Angeles County who once served as a city councilman, U.S. attorney, and eventually a Los Angeles Superior Court judge.
Date:: [between 1934-1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "EXPERT LAUDS PLANETARIUM: Paul Lange of Jena, Rules It as 'Most..." Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 1934: 18.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View of visitors attending the newly completed Griffith Observatory and Astronomers Monument.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph taken at the Griffith Observatory Auditorium of Mrs. Mary Rogers Miller, head of the Los Angeles League for the Hard of Hearing and Miss Bessie Whitaker, teacher of a summer class for the teachers of speech reading at the University of California, Los Angeles, guests at the demonstration. According to the article, "While astronomical objects were projected on the interior dome..." sound aids "co-ordinated speech and pictures..."
Date:: July 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. Crull explains the phenomena of double stars as he prepares to observe the skies at Griffith Observatory.
Date:: December 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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