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Title
Aerial view of flooding in Arcadia, Calfornia, 1938
Contributor
Prejza, Paul (donated 1978-03)
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an aerial view of flooding in Arcadia, California, 1938. To the left of center, extending to the right top of the image, automobiles traverse the First Avenue that has been inundated with water. At center, this road intersects Huntington Drive (part of Historic Route 66) which is largely dry, save for to the left and at the intersection. The building at upper left at the intersection is the Arcadia City Hall at that time
it moved to a new building in 1940. The Southern Pacific tracks can be seen on Santa Clara Street (one block above Huntington Drive) intersecting the Santa Fe mainline which runs diagonally through the intersection of Santa Clara and 1st Ave. The Pacific Electric tracks are the ones visible the next block up. The surrounding blocks are filled with grass, trees and what appear to be commercial or municipal buildings. Photoprint reads: "This photograph is loaned to you. Please return to: Illustrator. L.A. City Planning Dept. Rm.361 F City Hall, Los Angeles, California". Note: Originally, the image was captioned as, "Aerial view of flooding in Monrovia, 1938".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2483
USC-0-1-1-2546 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41474
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2483
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41474.jpg
Subject
Floods
Los Angeles--Floods--1938 #1 (Los Angeles County, except San Fernando Valley)
Cities
Time Period
1938
Place
1st Avenue and Huntington Drive
Santa Clara Street
34.140124, -118.028358
Arcadia
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41474 [Accession number]
CHS-41474 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 159 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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