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Title
Drawing depicting prehistoric life in the Rancho La Brea area of southern California, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 drawing depicting prehistoric life in the Rancho La Brea area of southern California, ca.1930. "The picture includes saber-toothed tigers, large bear-like animals, elephants, and vultures perched in trees as well as flying. Picture indicates watering area and the grass-like terrain that surrounds it". The vultures stalk the animals from a tree on the left. Beneath them are two saber-toothed tigers that appear to be attacking three bear-like creatures on the right. These bears have long tails and one stands at center with elephants and other animals in the field in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint : b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m6260
USC-0-1-1-6369 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40229
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6260
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40229.jpg
Subject
Animals--Prehistoric
Animals, Fossil
Grasslands
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
La Brea Tar Pits
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40229 [Accession number]
CHS-40229 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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