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Title
Swollen flood ditch, 1938
Creator
Estabrook, Ed
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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 a swollen flood ditch,1938. Plants lie flattened on the inclined bank at left while a building and electrical poles stand at top. Water flows from the right foreground to the left distance. More buildings stand on the far bank along with many trees. A bridge stands over the water in the center background. Trees stand along the land's edge behind the bridge. Photoprint reads: "Photo by Ed. Estabrook. Universal Pictures".
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : photoprints, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18193
USC-0-1-1-2566 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44205
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18193
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44205.jpg
Subject
Floods
Los Angeles--Floods--1938--Unidentified
Canals
Time Period
1938
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
44205 [Accession number]
CHS-44205 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: W-7 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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