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Title: Aerial view of Elysian Park landslide, Los Angeles, 1937
Contributor: Tandy, Bill
Date Created and/or Issued: November 27, 1937
1937-11-27
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A landslide caused by rumbling mountains deposited tons of debris onto Riverside Drive near the Los Angeles River bed in Elysian Park.
A similar photograph taken on the same day appears with the article, “Elysian Park’s Splitting Mountain Torn by New Avalanches,” Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov 1936: 1, 10.
Text from negative sleeve: 9972 Elysian Park Landslide Aerial View (aerial view) Nov-37, Property of L. A. Times Library PLEASE RETURN [illegible] Librarian
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14654
ark:/21198/zz002j88v3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Landslides--California--Los Angeles
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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