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Title: Pacoima Dam
Contributor: Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Photographs shows a portion of the Pacoima Dam with an aerial view of the Pacoima canyon and a housing development down below. Many homes in this area were condemned due to damage during the 1971 earthquake. Hazy features of photograph are dust clouds produced by landslides which continued for several days after the San Fernando, California earthquake.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:78_592
filename: jcg_earthquakes_1971_002
oclc: 566078508
islandora: 78_592
Language: English
Subject: Canyons
Dams
Disasters
Dust storms
Earthquakes
Housing developments
San Fernando Earthquake, Calif., 1971
Place: Pacoima Reservoir
Los Angeles County
California
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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