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Title
Roadway littered by a flood in Burbank, November 1928
Date Created and/or Issued
1928-11
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 roadway littered by a flood in Burbank, November 1928. A car sits on a street drenched in mud to the left of center. Debris can be seen spread out along the roadway while two other cars are visible behind the first. Three trees can be seen on each side of the street. Houses can be seen on the flat ground at right while more houses are visible on the side of the mountain in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20476 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35733
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20476
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35733.jpg
Subject
Floods
General Subjects--Disasters--General--Uncataloged
Roadways
Time Period
1928-11
Place
California
Glendale
Burbank
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35733 [Accession number]
CHS-35733 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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