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Title: La Brea Tar Pit
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Stone walls and foot bridges in the Hancock Park countryside make paths for visitors to follow as they look at the various tar pits spread around the area. The tar pit in the foreground contains the most sticky substance of any of the series of pits in the park. Photo dated: August 26, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064794
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1702 4x5
CARL0000068830
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2648
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Parks--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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