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Title
St. Francis Dam wreckage, March 19, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued
1928-03-19
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 St. Francis Dam wreckage, March 19, 1928. To the right of center, the remains of a brick tower are pictured, while at center, a stream of water serpentines into the foreground. More man-made structure can be seen at the top of the hill at left. The banks of the stream appear to be eroding away.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20488 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36815
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20488
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36815.jpg
Subject
Floods
General Subjects--Disasters--General--Uncataloged
Dam sites
Time Period
1928-03-19
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36815 [Accession number]
CHS-36815 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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