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Title
Construction of flood control channel, Montrose
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1965
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
Photo shows the pathway of the disastrous 1934 Montrose-La Crescenta flood. The flood took nearly 50 lives, wiping out many homes, including the old Montrose American Legion Hall, which had been set up as a Red Cross first aid headquarters. The hall was completely washed away in the flash flood, which extended as far as Glendale. The path of the flood is now a flood control channel under construction. Workers are shown laying cement into the channel.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00028554
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 170-L. A. River.
CARL0000031831
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10485
Subject
Rivers--California, Southern
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Montrose (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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