Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article "Prehistoric Link Studied: U.S.C. Students Classify Extinct Animal Fossils Dug Up at Rifle Range, Fancy Feeding Him Peanuts." Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 1935: A3. View of Virginia McFarland, USC student, in collared shirt and skirt, standing next to fossil thigh bone. University of Southern California geology students studied and pieced together fossils found in Centinela Park, Inglewood. The fossils included bones and teeth of imperial elephants, camels, horses, deer, ground sloths, and bison. Text from newspaper caption: Miss Virginia McFarland, co-ed, is not much larger than the thigh bone found recently of a prehistoric imperial elephant. It is being studied by U.S.C. geology students. Handwritten on negative: Virginia McFarland, 9-23-35 Text from negative sleeve: 2222, Virginia McFarland, USC, 9-23-35, [stamped:] Sep 26 1935
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8611 ark:/21198/zz002dghsg
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fossils Students University of Southern California McFarland, Virginia
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