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Title
Arroyo Seco channel, north from a point 600 feet south of San Pascual Avenue, April 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1938-04-01
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
Photograph of the Arroyo Seco channel, north from a point 600 feet south of San Pascual Avenue, April 1938. The concrete channel curves from the foreground to the background at left. THree men can be seen working in the cannel. A small amount of water is visible at the bottom of the arroyo. At right, unidentified machinery can be seen near the top of the channel. Mountains and tall trees are visible in the background. This photograph shows the type of construction that successfully withstood floods on March 3, 1938.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2030
USC-0-1-1-2090 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42224
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2030
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42224.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Highland Park--Arroyo Seco
Rivers
Flood control
Works Progress Administration (W.P.A)
Time Period
1938-04-01
Place
Arroyo Seco Channel north of York Boulevard
California
Garvanza
Los Angeles
USA
Source
42224 [Accession number]
CHS-42224 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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