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Title: Tar Pits human fossils in museum
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 human skull and other human remains and artifacts on display in the Los Angeles County Museum. They were found in Pit #10 of the La Brea Pits. Photo dated: August 7, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064796
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1709 4x5
CARL0000068834
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2651
Subject: Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art
Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Fossil hominids
Skull
Museums--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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