Railroad track repair effort in the valley after the flooding caused by the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1920s
US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Construction crew works on a railroad track. The dam collapsed on March 12. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century. Text from negative sleeve: Dam, Saint Francis.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3701_G1255 ark:/21198/z1r26t86
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dam failures--California--San Francisquito Canyon Saint Francis Dam Failure, Calif., 1928
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