Search

Browse items

–

Current results range from 1933 to 1984

View distribution

Search Constraints

You searched for: Names Griffith Observatory ✖Remove constraint Names: Griffith Observatory
Start Over

39 Catalog Results

Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Created with Sketch. List View List Gallery Created with Sketch. Gallery View Gallery

Search Results

Speech reading therapists Mrs. Mary Rogers Miller and Miss Bessie Whitaker at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1935

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
Speech reading therapists Mrs. Mary Rogers Miller and Miss Bessie Whitaker at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1935

Maxwell K. Baughman looking through the Zeiss refracting telescope at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

Description:
View of Maxwell K. Baughman looking through the twelve-inch (305 mm) Zeiss refracting telescope in the east dome of the newly constructed Griffith Observatory. Baughman, a technician at the Griffith Planetarium, worked with Paul Lange, a planetarium expert from Jena Germany, to install the telescope from September 1934 to January 1935.
Date:
1934-1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Maxwell K. Baughman looking through the Zeiss refracting telescope at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

Griffith Observatory near completion, bird's-eye view facing south, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Bird's-eye view of the Griffith Observatory facing south towards the straight line of Los Feliz Boulevard in the distance. The observatory appears to be in the final phase of completion, with the Astronomers Monument in place but with the parts of the walkway and the south end of E. Observatory Avenue unpaved.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Griffith Observatory near completion, bird's-eye view facing south, Los Angeles, 1935

Griffith Observatory, exterior view of the west dome during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1934-1935

Description:
Exterior view of the south face of the west telescope dome during landscaping and the final phase of construction with wheel barrows at the base of the tower beneath the exterior staircase to the roof. The original concrete surface is visible; consistent with other similar architecture of the day, the Observatory's concrete walls were left unpainted in the 1930s and 1940s.
Date:
[circa 1934-1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Griffith Observatory, exterior view of the west dome during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1934-1935

Astronomers Monument at the nearly completed Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
The Astronomer’s Monument honors 6 great astronomers: Hipparchus, Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and William Herschel. It was a U. S. Treasury Department's Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). Designed by Archibald Garner, the art deco style monument it was executed in cast stone by Garner and 5 other sculptors: Gordon Newell, Djey El Djey (a.k.a. Djey Owens), George Stanley, Roger Noble Burnham, and Arnold Foerster.
Date:
November 25, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Astronomers Monument at the nearly completed Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934

Robert A. Millikan, Chair of the Executive Council at Caltech, speaking at the dedication of the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of Robert A. Millikan speaking at the dedication of the Griffith Observatory. Millikan is standing at a podium in front of the art deco bronze panels at the entrance to the observatory. The ornament on the panels features planetarium-themed motifs. At this time Millikan was Chair of the Executive Council at Caltech.
Date:
May 14, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Robert A. Millikan, Chair of the Executive Council at Caltech, speaking at the dedication of the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1935

Griffith Observatory, exterior view of the west and central domes the during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1934-1935

Description:
Oblique exterior view of the south faces of the west and central domes of the Griffith Observatory from the west-south-west during the final phase of construction. Signs of construction include a tall ladder resting against a buttress of the central dome, wheel barrows next to the west dome and a pile of dirt in the foreground. The original concrete surface is visible; consistent with other similar architecture of the day, the Observatory's concrete walls were left unpainted in the 1930s and 1940s.
Date:
[circa 1934-1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Griffith Observatory, exterior view of the west and central domes the during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1934-1935

Griffith Observatory, exterior view of the south face during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1934-1935

Description:
Exterior view of the Griffith Observatory during construction with the skeleton of steel girders of the three domes visible. At the base of the central dome wooden supports for concrete molds for the pilaster finials are visible as well. The original concrete surface is visible; consistent with other similar architecture of the day, the Observatory's concrete walls were left unpainted in the 1930s and 1940s.
Date:
[circa 1934-1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Griffith Observatory, exterior view of the south face during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1934-1935

Mayor Frank L. Shaw and Mabel Socha participate in the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Griffith Park Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Mayor Frank L. Shaw and Mabel Socha, president of the Board of Park Commissioners, participate in the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Griffith Park Observatory. Both hold trowels. An unidentified man holding a top hat stands at the left of the photograph.
Date:
July 12, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mayor Frank L. Shaw and Mabel Socha participate in the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Griffith Park Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934

Dr. Frederick C. Leonard speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Astronomers Monument at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Dr. Frederick C. Leonard speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Astronomers Monument at Griffith Park. In the foreground is an orchestra. In the background, mountains are visible. Children sit on the steps in front of Leonard and an American flag flies above him.
Date:
November 25, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. Frederick C. Leonard speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Astronomers Monument at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934