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Title: Truck and homes half-buried in silt
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photo shows a small truck (arrow) half-buried in silt at Vineyard Avenue and Freeborn Street in Duarte. Silt was deposited when a retaining wall broke during the weekend storm, causing 225 persons to be evacuated.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028411
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3451
CARL0000031523
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10320
Subject: Floods--California--Duarte
Streets--California--Duarte
Mud--California--Duarte
Dwellings--California--Duarte
Men--California--Duarte
Duarte (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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