Man pointing at crack in Saint Francis Dam after its collapse, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

Title: Man pointing at crack in Saint Francis Dam after its collapse, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928
Date Created: [circa March 12. 1928]
Date: 1928-03-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Photo taken after the March 12, 1928 collapse of the Saint Francis Dam; this disastrous civil engineering failure cost over 600 lives in the resulting flood and brought the end of William Mulholland's career as the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dams (San Francisquito, i.e. St. Francis).

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Floods--California--San Francisquito Canyon
Disaster
Saint Francis Dam Failure, Calif., 1928

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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