LA Basin from Mount Wilson, 1904 and 2016
Two views of Pasadena, Los Angeles, and beyond, separated by time, juxtaposed. 1904 photograph by unknown photographer, possibly Ellerman; 2016 photograph by Stephen Padilla.
The music is from Passacaglia by Haendel-Halvorsen, performed by Ben Powell on violin and Cécilia Tsan on cello, recorded at a concert in the dome of the 100-Inch Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory on July 9, 2017.
1904 image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.