Image / Los Angeles River and a wooden bridge during rainstorm flooding, Compton, 1927

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Title: Los Angeles River and a wooden bridge during rainstorm flooding, Compton, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1927
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
View of the churning Los Angeles River and the wooden railing of a bridge in Compton during rainstorm flooding. Trees and a tower for electric lines are visible on the shore.
Text from negative sleeve: Floods, 1927. [handwritten:] ?
Handwritten on negative: Compton bridge
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2371
ark:/21198/zz002ddbq4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bridges--California--Compton
Storms--California--Compton
Floods--California--Compton
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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