Tools and buckets are scattered on the floor as workers bend over their excavating tasks. A camera crew stands at the edge above by the ladder. Photo caption reads: "Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History scientists and volunteers pick away at ice-age fossils in a excavation pit at the foot of a new viewing station at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park". Photo dated: Dec. 8, 1976.
Paleontological excavations--California--Los Angeles Excavations (Archaeology)--California--Los Angeles Fossils--California--Los Angeles Camera operators--California--Los Angeles La Brea Pits (Calif.) Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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