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Title: St. Francis Dam disaster
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
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: The St. Francis Dam disaster cost 400 lives, and was the greatest man-made disaster in California history. The dam failed on March 12, 1928. This photo was taken on March 16, showing the wreckage caused by the wall of water.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00017361
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Reservoirs-St. Francis Dam.; S-002-194 4x5
CARL0000002640
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/89701
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Water and Power
Dams--California
Dam failures--California
Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)

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