Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Onlookers on the Main Street Bridge gaze out over the wooden railing towards the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm Text from negative sleeve: Floods, L.A. River Text from newspaper caption: Thundering Waters Tear at Toppling Bridges. Tempest Turns River Into Destructive Force. Hungry flood waters of the raging Los Angeles River assailing the Main-street bridge. These waters rioting over an area which normally is an arroyo seco or dry river bed. A number of bridges have been swept out or badly damaged by the stream, transformed from an innocuous pygmy to a destructive giant almost overnight [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: 3].
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_2463 ark:/21198/zz002ddfw5
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No linguistic content
Subject
Los Angeles River (Calif.) Rivers--California--Los Angeles Storms--California--Los Angeles Bridges--California--Los Angeles Floods--California--Los Angeles
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