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Title
Mud moves up to window sill of home
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1954
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
Photo shows Charles W. Shaw with a shovel, as he tries to keep the mud from flowing into his house at 118 East Carter Avenue. The moving mass of mud is up to the window sills of the house; inside, the floors are covered with water and seeping silt caused by the floodwaters.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00028464
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3451.
CARL0000031575
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10347
Subject
Floods--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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