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Title: 1911 Flood in San Jose
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911-03-07
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Following record rainfall, parts of San Jose flooded in March 1911. Two people drift in a boat near the intersection of Viola Avenue and Orchard Street (now Almaden Avenue).
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 800 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 5 x 7 1/2 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/287
Language: English
Subject: Boats
Disasters
Floods
Houses
Men
Streams
Streets
Place: San Jose
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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