Mystery Observatory Photo -- Update

Los Angeles Times file photo

Cary Schneider and Robin Mayper of The Times library were going through our photos of observatories yesterday looking for pictures of Mt. Wilson and came across this unlabeled item. It appears to have been taken in the early 1930s. Any ideas? Update: As Dale Trader points out, this is the Astrophysics Laboratory at Caltech. Here's a photo from 1939 at the Los Angeles Public Library.

Comments

[Dale Trader]

This is the observatory at Cal Tech in Pasadena, which is on top of the Astronomy Building on campus facing California Blvd. on the north side of the street.

[Dale Trader]

It's actually called the Astro-Physics Laboratory Building at Cal-Tech. Here another historic photo on lapl.org
http://catalog1.lapl.org/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?fullRecord+9795+968+69626+12+0

Regards,
Dale