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Title
Native American pictographs
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
Smoke-blackened wall of a cave one-half mile west of Seminole Summit bearing Native American painting in red, apparently representing a lizard. Photo dated: Nov. 16, 1937.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00065527
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA B-4212 4x5
CARL0000069929
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2806
Subject
Rock paintings--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Native Americans--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Indian painting--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Cave paintings--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Caves--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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