Virginia McFarland, USC student with prehistoric fossil, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Virginia McFarland, USC student with prehistoric fossil, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: September 23, 1935
Date: 1935-09-23
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the article "Prehistoric Link Studied: U.S.C. Students Classify Extinct Animal Fossils Dug Up at Rifle Range, Fancy Feeding Him Peanuts." Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 1935: A3.
View of Virginia McFarland, USC student, in collared shirt and skirt, standing next to fossil thigh bone. University of Southern California geology students studied and pieced together fossils found in Centinela Park, Inglewood. The fossils included bones and teeth of imperial elephants, camels, horses, deer, ground sloths, and bison.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Miss Virginia McFarland, co-ed, is not much larger than the thigh bone found recently of a prehistoric imperial elephant. It is being studied by U.S.C. geology students.
Handwritten on negative: Virginia McFarland, 9-23-35
Text from negative sleeve: 2222, Virginia McFarland, USC, 9-23-35, [stamped:] Sep 26 1935

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8611
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dghsg
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