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Title
Flooding in Palm Springs, 1958
Contributor
Longmont Pioneer Museum (donated 1980)
Date Created and/or Issued
1958
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of flooding on the road between Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs, 1958. A line of automobiles drive over the dirt-covered road as water spills over its surface from the left. The water continues across the street to the fields at right. Electrical poles line either side of the road. Photoprint reads: "gift: Longmont Pioneer Museum, Boulder County, Colorado, 1980."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8151
USC-0-1-1-8282 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42995
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8151
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42995.jpg
Subject
Floods
Riverside County--Palm Springs
Roadways
Time Period
1958
Place
California
Palm Springs
Desert Hot Springs
Riverside
USA
Source
42995 [Accession number]
CHS-42995 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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