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Title: Glendale, Montrose flood
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: 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.
A. Van EEnooghe and others, at 2615 Manhattan Avenue in Montrose, digging out debris caused by flooding.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00029148
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5000 L.A.-Glendale-Montrose flood
CARL0000033571
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7812
Subject: Floods--California, Southern
Flood damage--California--Montrose
Mud--California--Montrose
Dwellings--California--Montrose
Debris--California--Montrose
Mountains--California, Southern
Lost architecture--California--Montrose
Verdugo Mountains (Calif.)
Montrose (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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