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Title
Flooded-out drainage ditch, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a flooded-out drainage ditch, 1938. A short, jagged bank stands in the left foreground while shallow water flows at center. A cylindrical tank sits in the water at right while trees line the low bank on the far side. Electrical poles stand behind the trees with long buildings behind them. Mountains stand across the background.
Type
image
Format
15 photographs : photoprints, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18191
USC-0-1-1-2568 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44197
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18191
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44197.jpg
Subject
Floods
Bridges
Motion picture studios
Los Angeles--Floods--1938
Los Angeles--Floods--Unclassified
Buildings
Time Period
1938
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
Burbank
USA
Source
44197 [Accession number]
CHS-44197 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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