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Title: Broken water pipe causes huge landslide
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A 40-inch water pipe gave way and caused a hugh landslide of mud and rock, covering a part of Riverside Drive in the Elysian Park hills. Arrow points out where the pipe, which connects with the Elysian Park reservoir, was broken.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00029071
Herald Examiner Collection
He box 7414 Elysian Park.
CARL0000032167
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7784
Subject: Parks--California--Los Angeles
Landslides--California--Los Angeles
Reservoirs--California--Los Angeles
Water-pipes--California--Los Angeles
Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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