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Title: La Brea Tar Pits
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
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: Panoramic view of the La Brea Tar Pits and the La Break Park on Wilshire Blvd. Spectators lean against the fence as they look at the tar pit. In the background, center, is the May Co. department store. A billboard on Wilshire exhorts viewers to "Fly Delta." Photograph dated May 4, 1962.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00071913
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 11346
CARL0000075384
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27498
Subject: Parks--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
La Brea Pits (Calif.)--Aerial views
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Panoramic views
Time Period: 1961-1970

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