Workers on a destroyed railroad bridge after the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Workers on a destroyed railroad bridge after the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
- Date Created
- 1928
- Date
- 1928
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
-
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
- The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
glass plate negatives - Location
- Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Dam failures--California--San Francisquito Canyon
Railroad bridges--California--Santa Clara River Valley
Construction workers--California--Santa Clara River Valley
Saint Francis Dam Failure, Calif., 1928
Floods--California--Santa Clara River Valley
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3701_G1259
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002nzx5
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
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- US