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Title: Debris left by failed St. Francis Dam
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
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: St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon near Saugus was completed in 1926 and failed in 1928. It was part of the Owens Valley Aqueduct System. This post-failure photograph shows a view of the devastation caused by the 100 foot high wall of water which raced towards Ventura. Here everything is washed away that was in the path of the water.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009824
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Reservoirs-St. Francis Dam; S-002-254.3 4x5
CARL0000011617
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83984
Subject: St. Francis Dam Failure, California, 1928
Dam failures--California--Los Angeles County
Floods--California--Santa Clara River
Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)

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