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Title: View across one of the tar pits
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 one of the tar pits, now covered with a layer of water. The (at that time) owner of this area, Henry Hancock, excavated this section for its tar content. Car-loads of bones not then known to have a scientific value were burned as rubbish. In the distance the oil field derricks can be seen.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010541
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.; S-001-588 4x5
CARL0000012614
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84504
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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