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Title: Recent victim of the tar pits
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Cobb, E. S
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: A jack rabbit is caught on the surface of one of the pits. The skeletons of several species of present day mamals and birds were recovered from the pits, but their numbers are relatively small compared to those of the Glacial period.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010616
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.
CARL0000012684
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84565
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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