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Title
Walled-in tar pit at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park, ca.1930-1939
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930/1939
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a walled-in tar pit at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park, ca.1930-1939. The pit is at center and is surrounded by a low, circular stone wall. Several small bushes are growing inside the boundary of the wall. Behind the structure is a row of trees.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20873 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33463
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20873
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33463.jpg
Subject
Hancock Park LaBrea Tar Pits
Los Angeles--Parks--Hancock Park
Parks
Animals, Fossil
Time Period
circa 1930/1939
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
33463 [Accession number]
CHS-33463 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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