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Center street bridge spanning the San Gabriel River swollen with rainstorm flooding, Los Angeles County, 1927

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Title: Center street bridge spanning the San Gabriel River swollen with rainstorm flooding, Los Angeles County, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: February 16, 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 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
Storms--California--Los Angeles County
Rivers--California--Los Angeles County
Bridges--California--Los Angeles County
San Gabriel River (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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