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Title: Tar pit #27
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: Tar pit #27 in the center of Hancock Park area contained the greatest amount of the sticky tar. Here it is seen still bubbling up. Tar pits form when crude oil seeps to the surface through fissures in the earth's crust. The light fraction of the oil evaporates, leaving behind the heavy tar, or asphalt, in sticky pools like this. Note the consistency of the tar.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010602
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 13 (1703) 4x5
CARL0000012689
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1618
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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