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Title: Earth ready to topple at Point Fermin
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
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: Two hundred tons of earth at Point Fermin are shown ready to topple into the sea at San Pedro. It is part of the six-acre area atop the 90-foot bluff that started to slip toward the sea in 1939. The heavy weekend rains loosened the big chunk and it is liable to become an avalanche at any moment. The site is commonly known as the "Sunken City." Photo dated: February 17, 1941.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043564
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 233.
CARL0000047037
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13783
Subject: Landslides--California--Los Angeles
Geology--California--Los Angeles
Sunken City (San Pedro, Los Angeles, Calif.)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Point Fermin (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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