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Title: Hancock Park tar pit
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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: A view of an area of Hancock Park prior to 1927. On the right is one of the tar pits. Lumber is laying in the foreground (right lower corner) and a chicken wandering around. On the left (in the area of the billboard) is Wilshire Blvd.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010588
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.
CARL0000012671
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84557
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Billboards--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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