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Flood of 1938, Aerial View of Homes in the Santa Ana River Break. [graphic]

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Title: Flood of 1938, Aerial View of Homes in the Santa Ana River Break. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Digital Anaheim
Creator: Watson Airfotos
Contributor: Watson Airfotos
Date Created and/or Issued: March 3, 1938 (issued)
Contributing Institution: Anaheim Public Library
Collection: Anaheim Public Library photograph collection on Anaheim local history
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Accession number: P3239
Ink stamped on back "WATSON AIRFOTOS / PHONE 622-01 237 AMERICAN AVENUE / LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA."
Aerial view of the homes caught in the Santa Ana River Break during the 1938 flood; image shows Santa Ana River bed in background, with rooftops and power poles showing above the flood waters.
Type: image
Format: 1 Photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in.
Form/Genre: Aerial views
Photographic print
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3m3nc4c2
Subject: Floods--California--Anaheim--1938
Natural disasters--California
Physical geography--California
Time Period: Floods -- California -- Anaheim -- 1938
Place: Floods
California
Anaheim
1938
Natural disasters
California.
Physical geography
Santa Ana River (Calif.)
Santa Ana River Watershed (Calif.)

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