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Title
Flooded-out drainage ditch, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
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 a flooded-out drainage ditch, 1938. Water flows over the cracks of the ground below at center. The water continues into the background where it curves out of view to the right. Trees stand along the left edge while a home stands in danger in the left foreground. A larger building stands next to electrical poles in the right background. Electrical lines hang over head in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
15 photographs : photoprints, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18192
USC-0-1-1-2568 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44198
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18192
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44198.jpg
Subject
Floods
Bridges
Motion picture studios
Los Angeles--Floods--1938
Los Angeles--Floods--Unclassified
Buildings
Time Period
1938
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
Burbank
USA
Source
44198 [Accession number]
CHS-44198 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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