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Title
Flood damage, Glendale
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Van Ness, Clarence Dizney
Date Created and/or Issued
1934
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Wildfires above the Crescenta Valley in November 1933 and subsequent heavy rain in December 1933 produced the perfect conditions for a massive flood. Just after midnight on January 1, 1934, millions of tons of mud and debris traveled from the mountains down to the Verdugo Wash, killing many people and destroying about 400 homes in the communities of La Can~ada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Woody Guthrie's song, "Los Angeles New Year's Flood," commemorates the natural disaster.
A car collided into a tree on an unidentified residential street in Glendale during the flood on January 1, 1934. A few people are seen walking down the mud-covered street, not far from homes (left).
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;9 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00110648
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b092_f3_i1
CARL0005252932
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116602
Subject
Floods--California, Southern
Flood damage--California--Glendale
Mud--California--Glendale
Trees--California--Glendale
Dwellings--California--Glendale
Automobiles--California--Glendale
Pedestrians--California--Glendale
Glendale (Calif.)
Source
Van Ness, Kathy

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