San Francisquito Canyon shortly after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and cataclysmic flood, 1928

Title: San Francisquito Canyon shortly after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and cataclysmic flood, 1928
Date Created: March 1928
Date: 1928-03
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of San Francisquito Canyon shortly after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and cataclysmic flood. Concrete debris from the broken dam wall is visible in the distance and the remaining dike wing of the dam is visible as a light, horizontal line in far distance beyond.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Saint Francis Dam

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

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1944
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dcv02
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Rights Country: US
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