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Title: LaBrea tar pits, oil derricks
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
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: Seen from the air you have to look carefully at the foreground (across the road from the buildings) to see the pits among the trees and in the open fields. In the upper portion of the picture is a field of oil derricks.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010550
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.; S-000-568 4x5; G-002-267 4x5
CARL0000012448
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84417
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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