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Title: Aerial view of Carson flood area, Avalon Boulevard and 190th Street
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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.
Aerial view of flood areas in Carson as a result of the January 26, 1956 storm; view is the vicinity of Avalon Boulevard and 190th Street (near the present site of Cal State University, Dominguez Hills). A muddy lake of varying depths submerged a two-block-long stretch and many persons were forced from their homes as the floodwaters raged through certain parts of the city, making it impassable. Photograph dated January 28, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;14 x 12 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00088624
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b22_f3_i16 (Photographic print); KHAF 235-4
CARL0004936368
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4383
Subject: Dwellings--Flood damage--California--Carson
Roads--Flood damage--California--Carson
Flood damage--California--Carson
Dwellings--California--Carson
Streets--California--Carson
Floods--California--Carson
Carson (Calif.)
Carson (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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