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Title
Aerial view of flooding of the Santa Ana River, showing a break in a levee, ca.1930
Contributor
Prejza, Paul (donated 1978-03)
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an aerial view of flooding of the Santa Ana River, showing a break in a levee, ca.1930. The river widens and washes over the road in the background as it leaks into the fields at center. A thin road runs through the rows of crops from the foreground at center to the drowned crops in the background on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9988
USC-0-1-1-10129 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40344
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9988
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40344.jpg
Subject
Disasters--Floods
Disasters
Floods
Rivers
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Riverside
USA
Source
40344 [Accession number]
CHS-40344 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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