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Title: Fossil miners at work
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Cobb, E. S
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911
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 the Los Angeles Museum excavations for pleistocene animal remains at Rancho La Brea. This picture shows the progress in the field after 2 years of work. Beyond lay the Hancock Oil fields and the Hollywood Hills. Several men are working down in the pit.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010544
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 13 (1720) 4x5; L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.
CARL0000012443
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84412
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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