Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. View of the Center Street bridge with wooden railings and trusses spanning the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm. Onlookers are visible on the bridge. A caption for a similar photograph taken at the same time reads: View from Center-street bridge over the San Gabriel. Note Sandbag levees erected to keep waters in channel (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3]. Text from negative sleeve: Floods, L.A. River [identification is incorrect]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2457 ark:/21198/zz002ddfp2
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Floods--California--Los Angeles County San Gabriel River (Calif.) Storms--California--Los Angeles County Bridges--California--Los Angeles County Rivers--California--Los Angeles County
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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