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Title
Observation pit
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1967
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
Drawings of prehistoric animals hang above museum visitors as they stare into the tar pit at the observation station. Photo caption reads: "Visitors from Hawaii listen to lecture by senior tour guide, Victor E. Zanoni (right) at La Brea Tar Pits Observation Pit. Others are (from left) Kay Ishibashi, Torrance; Bill Higa, Donald Masutani, Mrs? Dorothy Wendt and Wayne Toyofuku". Photo dated: May 8, 1967.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00071908
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 370.
CARL0000075396
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27506
Subject
Observatory domes--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Museum docents--California--Los Angeles
Paleontological excavations--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

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