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Title
Los Angeles River in flood, February 1914
Date Created and/or Issued
1914-02-01
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
Five views from a printed source showing the Los Angeles River in flood, February 1914. Two views show a pile railroad bridge destroyed and a train wreck eight miles southeast of Los Angeles
while three views show the magnitude of the flood at the Cerritos Pacific Electric Railway Bridge two miles before the river entered the Los Angeles Harbor.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2193
USC-0-1-1-2254 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41461A
CHS-41461B
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2193
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41461A.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--East Los Angeles
Rivers
Floods
Railroads--Accidents
Bridges
Time Period
1914-02-01
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41461 [Accession number]
CHS-41461 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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