Survivors and/or relief workers eating a meal in a tent following the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Survivors and/or relief workers eating a meal in a tent following the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
- Date Created
- March 1928
- Date
- 1928-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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View of survivors and/or relief workers eating a meal in a tent following the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The men are seated on long wooden benches attached to three wooden tables covered in white table cloths and the food is on white china. Their clothing and faces are soiled. They are served by three waiters dressed in white coats and dark bow ties. Three of the men wear round white buttons with numbers on them; two of the numbers are 21 and 131. .
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
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Saint Francis Dam Failure, Calif., 1928
Disaster relief--California--Santa Clara River Valley
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1901
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dcshv
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- 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
- 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 .