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Los Angeles River from the Main Street Bridge during rainstorm flooding, Los Angeles, 1927

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Title: Los Angeles River from the Main Street Bridge during rainstorm flooding, Los Angeles, 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 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 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].
Text from negative sleeve: Floods, L.A. River
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2463
ark:/21198/zz002ddfw5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Storms--California--Los Angeles
Rivers--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Bridges--California--Los Angeles
Floods--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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