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.
Photograph of Robert A. Millikan on a mountain neat a scenic lookout area with steps behind him. Eight other people are standing behind a barrier at a scenic lookout area in the background.
Crown Princess Louise and Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden presented with gifts at a reception at the Shrine Auditorium on the day of their arrival in Los Angeles. Robert Millikan of the California Institute of Technology presents the Crown Prince with a mounted specimen of a section of the backbone of the prehistoric giant sloth taken from the La Brea tar pits (in which the prince had expressed a keen interest). The painting behind them is a view of Santa Monica Bay through eucalypti by a local artist given by local Swedish-Americans. Crown Princess Louise holds a bouquet of flowers. The princess stands on the left holding a bouquet of flowers.
British journalist Sir Charles Igglesden shakes the hand of physicist Dr. Robert A. Millikan at California Institute of Technology. Dr. Millikan provided a tour of the laboratories at the institute to Sir Charles Igglesden and thirteen other British journalists who traveled through the United States on a trip sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. Related to the article "British Journalists Spend Busy Day Being Welcomed and Visiting City's Places of Interest: EDITORS LIKE OUR SUNSHINE," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1928: A1.