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Title: Rancho La Brea Specimens
Creator: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Date Created and/or Issued: 1970/1980~
Contributing Institution: Research Library, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Collection: California Revealed from Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Rights Information: (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
Description: These images document the specimens collected during the 1970/1980 excavation and have a direct relationship with cataloged specimens in the LA Brea Tar Pits museum collection. The images showcase the diversity of fossilized life found in and around one of the only six natural asphalt lakes in the world.
Type: text
Format: Original
Slide
Extent: 36 x 24 mm
180 Pages of 180
Identifier: calanhm_000461
NHAI1004005
ark:/13960/t3gz3tt4c
Subject: Fossils
Archaeology
Paleontology
Place: La Brea Tar Pits (Calif.)
Rancho La Brea (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Provenance: Natural History Museum Los Angeles County
California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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