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Planetarium, Griffith Park, Near Hollywood, California
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Planetarium, Griffith Park, Near Hollywood, California
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Description
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/
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
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