La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- 1936
- Date
- 1936
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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In 1924 George Allan Hancock donated 23 acres of Rancho La Brea to Los Angeles County to be turned into a preservation park and museum.
A small tar pit is enclosed by a stone wall, surrounded by a valley of grass. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 4960 – La Brea Tar Pits [stamped:] APR 23 1936
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.063162
- Latitude
- -118.355952
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14127
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j7npc
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .