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Title: Remains of a washed-out bridge over the Los Angeles River, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1936
1936-02
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Large splinters and beams of wood stick out of the muddy edifice and narrow river underneath the ruins. Three people can be seen looking at the scene from the top of the road.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Torrents Undermine Bridge Over Los Angeles River," Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb 1936: 3.
Text from negative sleeve: 3667 - Rhodes Ave Bridge - over L.A. River - Washed out 2/14/36 Box 1 2/19/36
Text from newspaper caption: Its supporting timbers weakened by heavy torrents caused by the recent storm, the wooden bridge spanning the Los Angeles river on Rhodes avenue one block north of Ventura Boulevard collapsed yesterday. Here is the result.
Handwritten on negative: Bridge out. Rhodes Ave. Ventura 2/16/36
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12735
ark:/21198/zz002hmstw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Debris--California--Los Angeles
Storms--California--Los Angeles
Bridges--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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