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Title: Men cleaning bones from tar pit
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Cobb, E. S
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911
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: After the bones have been removed from the pit they are cleaned in order to removed excess oil and asphalt. To help in the cleaning they are immersed in hot kerosene.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010564
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.
CARL0000012462
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84429
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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