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Title: One tar pit
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A view of one of the tar pits. There is some bubbling in the pond. This is located on Wilshire Blvd. between Ogden Dr. and Curson Ave. Tar taken from these pits was used by early inhabitants for roofing houses. Bones of prehistoric animals were not recognized and preserved until later.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010569
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 585-B 4x5
CARL0000012465
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1609
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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