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Title: 1916 Long Beach floods
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916
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.
Written on photo: "Looking NW along track, corner Hill and Orange, Long Beach". Water covers the electric train tracks and is almost to the top of the banks along this rural stretch of Long Beach. There were heavy winter rains in Southern California in 1916 and flooding was a problem throughout the basin. Photo dated: Jan., 1916.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;14 x 9 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074870
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach.
CARL0000078316
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110702
Subject: Pacific Electric Railway Company
Floods--California--Long Beach
Railroad tracks--California--Long Beach
Electric railroad trains--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)

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