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Title: 1916 Long Beach floods
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The flooded L.A. River after passing the Cerritos Bridge, showing the break in the levee that was erected by Long Beach to confine the river to its old channel. The water is passing over the broken levee, cutting across the land of Dominiguez Ranch into Dominguez Creek where it is rapidly eroding a new channel. Photograph dated Jan. 18, 1916.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074886
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Floods; A-007-775 4x5
CARL0000078334
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110713
Subject: Floods--California--Long Beach
Rivers--California, Southern
Levees--California--Long Beach
Flood damage--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles River (Calif.)

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