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S. Maus Purple, measuring a fossilized shark tooth that he found, Los Angeles, 1924

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Title: S. Maus Purple, measuring a fossilized shark tooth that he found, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa July 22, 1924]
1924-07-22
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
This photograph appears in "Looking Through the Lens at Bits of Life," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jul 1924: A12.
Samuel Maus Purple, wearing a suit and plaid tie, holds a fossilized shark tooth in his right hand and is measuring it with a ruler in his left hand. He is looking down at the fossil.
Text on negative sleeve: Purple, S. Maus; archeologist, 1929
Text accompanying photograph in article: A Whale of a Shark--S. Maus Purple has excavated a massive tooth at Palos Verdes Hills which scientists declare is that of a prehistoric carcharadon shark 140 feet long (Times photo.)
Handwritten on negative: S. Maus Purple
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7280
ark:/21198/zz002cxnnr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Geologists--California--Los Angeles
Fossils
Purple, Samuel Maus, 1878-1965
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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