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Title: Five views of the tar pits
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1910
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: Five pictures: 1. Mural painting of landscape in the vicinity of Rancho La Brea (by Charles R. Knight). 2. Looking northwest to the old Hancock Ranch House. 3. Workmen excavating one of the asphalt pits. 4. Looking north towards the Santa Monica range ; oil derricks show the location of Salt Lake Oil Field ; excavation of the Los Angeles Museum in the foreground. 5. Mass of fosilized material found in the asphalt-- specimens representing mammals and birds trapped in the tar.
Type: image
Format: 5 photographs :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010546
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.; S-006-126 4x5
CARL0000012447
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84416
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Knight, Charles Robert,1874-1953
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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