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Title: Fossils, Santa Monica Mountains
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Hoyt, Vance
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Fossils of scallop shells (Pecten) in the Topanga formation (Miocene epoch) seen along the roadway one mile east of the summit of Saddle Peak at the head of the Las Flores Canyon watershed in the Santa Monica Mountains. They were revealed by road construction. Photo date: January 21, 1937.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064762
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 112 4x5
CARL0000068548
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2508
Subject: Fossils--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Mountains--California
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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