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Title: Tar Pits mural in Natural History Museum
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: Museum guests view a large mural, located in La Brea Hall in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History in Exposition Park, painted by Charles R. Knight. It depicts the artist's vision of how an elephant calf is stuck in La Brea Tar Pits. Photo dated: September 3, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067794
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1715 4x5
CARL0000072802
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2327
Subject: Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Museums--California--Los Angeles
Museum visitors--California--Los Angeles
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Knight, Charles Robert,1874-1953

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