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Lorraine Geise and Helen Potts standing next to a steam shovel on the first day of flood control work, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1935

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Title: Lorraine Geise and Helen Potts standing next to a steam shovel on the first day of flood control work, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 22, 1935
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Permanent Flood Work Begun at La Crescenta," Los Angeles Times 23 Jul. 1935: A5.
Text from negative sleeve: 1658. Lorraine Geise, left, Helen Potts, Right. Flood Control Project in La Crescenta. 7-25-35.
Text from newspaper caption: Scene on Hall-Beckley Channel yesterday, below Foothill Boulevard and east of Ocean View, when huge steam shovel began deepening and widening of the channel. This marked the first actual construction work under the La Crescenta Valley program of permanent flood control. Shown viewing the start of work are, left, Lorraine Geife [sic] and Helen Potts, of Montrose.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10015
ark:/21198/zz002ddrsz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Flood control--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Stine, Lorraine Geise, 1919-2004
Bookman, Helen Mary Potts, 1917-1996
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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