Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
![Prehistoric animal graveyard, La Brea Pits, Hollywood, Cal. [i.e. Los Angeles]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN46JYFGM%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Visual Materials
Image of trees and low stone walls surrounding tar pits at La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California.
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![Prehistoric animal graveyard, La Brea Pits, Hollywood, Cal. [i.e. Los Angeles]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN463ZB9Y%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Visual Materials
Image of a stone wall in front of plank building with barbed wire that covers an open tar pit at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California.
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![Prehistoric great American lions, La Brea Pits, Hollywood, Cal.[i.e. Los Angeles]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN463ZMYN%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Visual Materials
Image of a sculpture of two prehistoric lions at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California.
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![Sabre-tooth tiger group. La Brea Pits, Hollywood, Cal. [i.e. Los Angeles]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN463N8_F%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Visual Materials
Image of a sculptural scene of saber-toothed tigers fighting over a bison stuck in a tar pit at the saber-toothed group region of the La Brea Pits in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California.
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Visual Materials
Image of a pond surrounded by trees at the La Brea tar pits in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California, with a portion of the lettering on the Citizen's Bank building, at Curson Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, visible to the right of Desmond's Wilshire Tower building in the distance at center.
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Manuscripts
6 items: booklet, Guide to the Exhibit of Fossil Animals from Rancho La Brea, L.A. County Museum of History, Science & Art, 4/1915 ; booklet, Notes on the Pleistocene fossils obtained from Rancho La Brea asphalt pits, L.A. Museum of History, Science and Art, 11/1926 ; booklet, History of Puppetry, Los Angeles County Museum, 1959 ; booklet, Los Angeles County Museum - 50th Anniversary, 1910 - 1960 ; tear sheet, Los Angeles Free Press, 4/18/1975, "Freedom to ignore vs. responsibility" ; tear sheet, LAT, 3/27/1987, "Money shortage closes Southwest Museum library"; 4 postcards featuring the First Interstate Bank Athletic Foundation Sports Museum, 1985; postcard featuring Kimberly Crest House and Gardens in Redlands, CA.
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