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Title: Bridge fallen in L.A. River
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
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: A fallen Santa Fe bridge lies in the rushing water of the Los Angeles River, looking upstream on March 4, 1941. No trains were endangered as the bridge collapse was discovered in time, and Santa Fe trains to and from the east were routed via Fullerton. Other bridges over the swollen river were considered safe.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043342
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8787.
CARL0000048959
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15217
Subject: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Rivers--California--Los Angeles
Bridges--California--Los Angeles
Floods--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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