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Title: Clearing away mud, Glendale
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Van Ness, Clarence Dizney
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
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.
Wildfires above the Crescenta Valley in November 1933 and subsequent heavy rain in December 1933 produced the perfect conditions for a massive flood. Just after midnight on January 1, 1934, millions of tons of mud and debris traveled from the mountains down to the Verdugo Wash, killing many people and destroying about 400 homes in the communities of La Can~ada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Woody Guthrie's song, "Los Angeles New Year's Flood," commemorates the natural disaster.; This commercial building is still standing, but its fac¸ade has been greatly modified.
A young woman watches a man shovel mud off the sidewalk outside of Alexander Pharmacy, located at 251 N. Brand Boulevard in Glendale, after the flood on January 1, 1934.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;9 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00110650
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b092_f3_i3
CARL0005252934
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116605
Subject: Mud--California--Glendale
Flood damage--California--Glendale
Drugstores--California--Glendale
Stores & shops--California--Glendale
Floods--California, Southern
Streets--California--Glendale
Sidewalks--California--Glendale
Men--California--Glendale
Women--California--Glendale
Signs and signboards--California--Glendale
Lampposts--California--Glendale
Brand Boulevard (Glendale, Calif.)
Glendale (Calif.)
Source: Van Ness, Kathy

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