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Title: Skull recovered from tar pits
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: A complete skull of the saber toothed tiger, recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits. It is inverted on the table here to keep the lower jaw in position, opened to the full extent to display the room for "sabers".
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010529
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.; S-006-127.2 4x5
CARL0000012469
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84435
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Saber-toothed tigers
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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