The Rancho La Brea fossil collections, as formely exhibited at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, seen in this lobby card from the movie 13 Ghosts (1960). The collection is now housed in the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum (formerly the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries).
One of a set of 75 La Brea informative cards apparently distributed to the LA City Schools (1950s?).
(To see William Otto’s highly collectible La Brea animal figures, CLICK HERE. And to see some very old images from Rancho La Brea in three dimensions, CLICK HERE.)
Most of my Rancho La Brea collectibles constitute postcards (see below; and there are lots of them I’m not showing here). The older collectibles — some featuring La Brea mascot Smilodon fatalis, the sabre-toothed cat (and California State Fossil) — were sold at the gift shop at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the more recent ones at the newer George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries (now referred to as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum).
Outside the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries.
Souvenir postcard (below left) reproducing the mural, painted in 1926 by artist Charles R. Knight for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, depicting a hypothetical scene of what would one day become Rancho La Brea; and montages of just some of the myriad postcards from the La Brea Tar Pits and their Museum in my collection.
Felis atrox skeleton.
Smilodon fatalis skeleton and life restoration.
Paramylodon harlani skeleton and life restoration.
