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Order Number	00071907
Title	Lowering a mammoth
Photographer	Pursley, Russell.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 370.
Date	1968
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	A helicopter hovers over Howard Ball's sculpture of a wooly mammoth stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits in an attempt to position the sculpture. A rope extends from the helicopter to the mammoth's neck. Other ropes are taut on the surface. The helicopter whips up a circle of waves as it hovers. Photo caption reads: "A helicopter lowers a statue of a mammoth into the lake at La Brea Tar Pits today". Photo dated: June 10, 1968.
Subject	Animal sculpture--California--Los Angeles. Helicopters--California--Los Angeles. Mammoths--California--Los Angeles. Installations (Art)--California--Los Angeles. La Brea Pits (Calif.). Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park). Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs. Ball, Howard.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection