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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated October 10, 1949 reads, "Search rewarded - Leonard Bessom, Los Angeles County Museum staff member, locates exact position of fossil bones and skulls of extinct mammals and birds in the Ice Age 'Brea' deposits near McKittrick, 40 miles west of Bakersfield."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles County Museum--Employees Fossils--Collection and preservation--California--Kern County Animals, Fossil--California--Kern County Museum curators--California--Kern County Men--California--Kern County Extinct mammals Glacial epoch Kern County (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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