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Title: Baldwin Hills Reservoir disaster
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Wilson, Doug
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
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: Photograph also used for article dated December 13, 1964.
Parked automobiles and vans are dwarfed by the inlet pipes at the bottom of the Baldwin Hills Reservoir just days after the dam broke. A row of sandbags sit in front of the enormous break and construction workers are busy with cleanup. A surveyor has his equipment set up at the edge of the break. Dated December 20, 1963.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00060040
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 114; HE-002-630 4x5
CARL0000064390
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24061
Subject: Dam failures--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Floods--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Dams--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Disasters--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Baldwin Hills Reservoir (Calif.)
Baldwin Hills Dam (Calif.)
Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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