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Title: View of bubbling tar pit
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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: This pond of tar, surrounded by local vegetation, is bubbling because of gases rising from the bottom. This pond accupies the site of old asphaltum diggings.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010559
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.; S-003-984 4x5
CARL0000012454
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84422
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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