Storm runoff following a catastrophic flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Storm runoff following a catastrophic flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
- Date Created
- 1934
- Date
- 1934
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Storm runoff following a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). The height of the banks indicates the size of the original torrent; a man is standing in the background.
In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Floods, Montrose
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_4629
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cth78
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .