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Identifier	clloy_105
Title	Planetarium, Griffith Park, Near Hollywood, California
Creator	Unknown
Date Published	circa 1935
Subject (Topic)	Observatories--California--Los Angeles; Planetariums--California--Los Angeles; Parks--California--Los Angeles;
Subject (Name)	Griffith Observatory;
Subject (Place)	Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.);
Type	image
Form/Genre	Postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/#d.en.3004
Publisher	Tichnor Art Company
Place of Publication	L.A. [i.e. Los Angeles, Calif.]
Language	eng
Description	The Planetarium at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, looking uphill from a viewpoint in the Los Feliz neighborhood.
Historical Background	In 1896, Colonel Griffith Jenkins Griffith (1850-1919) donated 3,015 acres of his land (formerly Rancho Los Felis) to the City of Los Angeles to be known as Griffith Park and used for public recreation for the "plain people." In 1912, Griffith donated $100,000 for an observatory to be built within the park atop Mt. Hollywood. Griffith died before the project could begin and, due to logistical problems and legal issues, it was twenty-one years before construction started. In Spring of 1931, the Griffith Trust and City Park Commission chose the architecture firm of John C. Austin and Frederic M. Ashley to design an observatory and planetarium. Known as Griffith Observatory, it opened to the public in May, 1935, slightly downhill from the originally proposed site, on a south-facing slope of Mt. Hollywood.
Publisher's Identifier	Publisher's serial number: 63779; Series number: T186
Additional Notes	Printed on linen textured paper.
Source	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection