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. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. This photograph 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 Text from newspaper caption: How Crumbled Mountain Looks from Air. Aerial view taken for The Times by Bill Tandy, Santa Monica cameraman, in a plane piloted by Joe Darby of Clover Field Airport, shows sheer cliff, left at top, created by the Elysian Park landslide. Autos in the foreground indicate size of slide. Times photo. [on photograph:] Tons of earth filling the area included in the dotted line dropped nearly eighty feet in Elysian Park's moving mountain, causing slide. The slide above caused the debris shown here to move out over Riverside Drive and menace houses.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14655 ark:/21198/zz002j88wm
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Parks--California--Los Angeles Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Landslides--California--Los Angeles
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