Image / Automobiles drive through flooded streets caused by heavy rainstorms, January 1940

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Title: Automobiles drive through flooded streets caused by heavy rainstorms, January 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: between January 8 and January 10, 1940
1940-01-08/1940-01-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Cars attempt to navigate flooding at W. 54th and 5th Avenue after disastrous storms in January of 1940. The heavy rainstorms halted traffic and caused highway and bridge damage. At least three died and many were treated for injuries
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 54th & 5 ave
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Disasters - Floods - following Jan. 1940 storm; Bellona Creek; West 7th St.; Slauson and Sepulveda; Manchester and Vermont; Roosevelt Highway
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gv95
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Weather
Floods--California--Los Angeles
Transportation
Disaster
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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