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Title: Blasting for asphaltum at the Brea ranch near Santa Monica
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a cloud of smoke and dust created from asphalt blasting at the Brea ranch (presumably located near the La Brea Tar Pits in present-day Hancock Park in Los Angeles, California).
Instantaneous photograph. Blasting for asphaltum at the Brea ranch near Santa Monica"--text, handwritten in ink on verso. Title devised based on note on verso; date supplied by cataloger based on date provided for same image in the Los Angeles Public Library Collection titled "Blasting in the tar pits, 1890.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 16.5 x 11 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19946
Subject: La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Asphalt industry
Explosions
Smoke
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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