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Title: Bones on the surface of 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: The leg bone of an extinct sabre-tooth cat and another bone of either an elephant or giant ground sloth are phtographed at the surface of a tar pool in Hancock Park. Photo dated: August 6, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010599
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1700 4x5
CARL0000012679
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1615
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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