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Title
Fleeing 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
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
A woman steers a raft containing household goods and furniture across a lake sprouting houses, trees, and utility poles as she flees the Long Beach flooding of 1916 caused by heavy rains. A young boy in a canoe is beside the raft and a man stands shin deep in water next to it.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00074887
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
S-003-100 4x5; Long Beach-Floods.
CARL0000078335
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110714
Subject
Floods--California--Long Beach
Rivers--California--Long Beach
Flood damage--California--Long Beach
Environmental refugees--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)

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