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Title: Chickens at La Brea Tar Pits
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Jarzomb, Leo
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "Like little soldiers on the watch, chickens await encephalitis mosquito onslaught at La Brea Tar Pits". "Chickens were placed at the La Brea Tar Pits by mosquito abatement to test for encephalitis carrying mosquitos". Photograph dated: April 5, 1985.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084296
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b022_f3_i1
CARL0002882201
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25855
Subject: Chickens
Mosquitoes--Control--California--Los Angeles
Encephalitis
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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