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Title: After the flood, Glendale
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Van Ness, Clarence Dizney
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Wildfires above the Crescenta Valley in November 1933 and subsequent heavy rain in December 1933 produced the perfect conditions for a massive flood. Just after midnight on January 1, 1934, millions of tons of mud and debris traveled from the mountains down to the Verdugo Wash, killing many people and destroying about 400 homes in the communities of La Can~ada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Woody Guthrie's song, "Los Angeles New Year's Flood," commemorates the natural disaster.
Debris and mud cover a residential street in Glendale, captured after the flood of January 1, 1934. The interior of the Tudor revival home on the corner has sustained much damage.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;9 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00110654
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b092_f3_i7
CARL0005252938
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116611
Subject: Floods--California, Southern
Mud--California--Glendale
Flood damage--California--Glendale
Debris--California--Glendale
Dwellings--California--Glendale
Streets--California--Glendale
Automobiles--California--Glendale
Architecture, Domestic--California--Glendale--English influences
Trees--California--Glendale
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Glendale (Calif.)
Source: Van Ness, Kathy

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