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Title: Flood of 1938, Aerial View, Anaheim [graphic]
Alternative Title: Digital Anaheim
Creator: Watson Airfotos, photographer
Contributor: Watson Airfotos, photographer
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: Property rights reside with the Anaheim Public Library. Literary rights are generally retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce, please contact the Local History Curator.
Description: Accession number: P1138
See accession number P12525XX for oversized print.
Original Watson Airfoto negative number 1518-17
Reverse of sepia photograph stamped with "Negative" with "1518-17" written in ink; stamped "Date" with "3-3-38" in ink; stamped "WATSON AIRFOTOS, / LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA" and "Subject" with "City of Anaheim" in ink.
Aerial view of the 1938 flood in Anaheim looking east; image shows wide-spread flooding of orange groves and city streets between Citron Street at bottom of photo to the mountains and Santa Ana River at top of photo; some streets indentified as Anaheim Blvd. (running diagonally from lower left) and La Palma (running diagonally from lower right.)
Type: image
Format: 1 Photographic print : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
1 Photographic print : b&w ; 16 x 20 in.
1 Photographic print : sepia ; 8 x 10 in.
1 Negative : 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Form/Genre: Aerial views
Photographic print
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4x0nc4bt
Subject: Natural disasters--California
Floods--California--Anaheim--1938
Anaheim (Calif.)--Photographs
Time Period: Floods -- California -- Anaheim -- 1938
Place: Natural disasters
California.
Floods
California
Anaheim
1938.
Anaheim (Calif.)
Photographs

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