- Title
- Planetarium, Griffith Park, Near Hollywood, California
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- Description
- The Planetarium at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, looking uphill from a viewpoint in the Los Feliz neighborhood.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Observatories--California--Los Angeles; Planetariums--California--Los Angeles; Parks--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- 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.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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