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San Gabriel River from the Norwalk Street bridge during rainstorm flooding, [Norwalk?], 1927

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Title: San Gabriel River from the Norwalk Street bridge during rainstorm flooding, [Norwalk?], 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.
Onlookers gathered next to the wooden railing of the Norwalk bridge spanning the San Gabriel River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm
Another photograph of this bridge taken at the same time has the caption: Valiant efforts to save the Norwalk bridge over the San Gabriel from the rampaging waters were being made late yesterday...(Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3]
Text from negative sleeve: Floods, L.A. River [identification is not correct]
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2462
ark:/21198/zz002ddfvn
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Floods--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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