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Title: After the flood, 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.
Pacific Avenue in Glendale, seen covered with mud and debris after the flood of January 1, 1934. Numerous people are walking outside of businesses, which include Pacific Pharmacy, a cleaners, and a barber shop.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;9 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00110651
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b092_f3_i4
CARL0005252935
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116606
Subject: Mud--California--Glendale
Flood damage--California--Glendale
Floods--California, Southern
Stores & shops--California--Glendale
Debris--California--Glendale
Drugstores--California--Glendale
Barbershops--California--Glendale
Cleaning establishments--California--Glendale
Commercial buildings--California--Glendale
Streets--California--Glendale
Sidewalks--California--Glendale
Men--California--Glendale
Women--California--Glendale
Signs and signboards--California--Glendale
Lampposts--California--Glendale
Neon signs--California--Glendale
Mountains--California, Southern
Electric lines--Poles and towers
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Verdugo Mountains (Calif.)
Glendale (Calif.)
Source: Van Ness, Kathy

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