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Title: One of famed La Brea Tar Pits--site of valuable bone discoveries
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Publication Information: Wurdeman and Becket
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated April 8, 1949 reads "Gas bubbles eject into the air from an underground oil pool beneath Hancock Park."; See images #00122160 through #00122161 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00122160
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d026_f21_i1
CARL0005401642
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/54518
Subject: Prudential Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Tar--California--Los Angeles
Trees--California--Los Angeles
Fences--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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