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Title: Pit surrounded by stone wall, view 3
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1955
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: Major Henry Hancock was given ownership to a large ranch in Los Angeles known as Rancho La Brea, in 1860. In the 1870s, Hancock found the skeletal remains of dinosaur as well as one Indian woman within the tar pits. The area that contains the skeletal collection and the Tar Pits is what is now called Hancock Park. Major Hancock was an early Los Angeles lawyer, surveyor, landowner, and candidate for the Presidency of the United States.
View 3: A small pit from which bones had been dug is put on display here by surrounding it with a low stone wall. This was located in Hancock Park in the 1950's.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010535
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.; S-002-452.3 4x5
CARL0000012590
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/88099
Subject: Stone walls--California--Los Angeles
Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
La Brea Pits (Calif.)

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