Image / Landslide...Santa Monica (3750 tons of earth fall on Highway near Palisades), 1951

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Title: Landslide...Santa Monica (3750 tons of earth fall on Highway near Palisades), 1951
Creator: Gaze
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951-08-20
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: 6 images. Landslide...Santa Monica (3750 tons of earth fall on Highway near Palisades), 20 August 1951. Isaac Fife
Brenda Lee Watts -- 11 years
Robert Watts -- 8 years.
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1951-08-20. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: landslide -- Santa Monica. #46: Long shot of slide of 3750 tons of earth from Palisades Park Bluff onto Highway 101. #71: Another view of slide with auto of Isaac Fife, 1409 Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, pushed 35 feet from its parking place. #87: Brenda Lee Watts, 11
her brother, Robert, 8
and their grandfather, Isaac Fife, beside damaged car".
Type: image
Format: 6 photographs : negatives, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m5097
EXM-N-9271-011~1...~6
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m5097
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-9271-011~1.jpg
Language: English
Time Period: 1951-08-20
Place: California
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
USA
Source: 9271-011 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
examiner-m1663

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