Los Angeles River flooded with torrential rain, [Compton?], 1927
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Item Overview
- Title
- Los Angeles River flooded with torrential rain, [Compton?], 1927
- Date Created
- February 15, 1927
- Date
- 1927-02-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Another similar photograph of the Los Angeles River during this storm is captioned: J. Pluvius Has Field Day With Los Angeles Traffic and Business. The magic of Southland rain has transformed the Los Angeles River from a streamlet to a raging torrent. The above photo was taken from the bridge at Compton. (Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer) [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1927: 8].
- Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Floods, 1927. [handwritten:] ?
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Compton (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Storms--California--Compton
Rivers--California--Compton
Floods--California--Compton
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2377
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ddbx7
- Manifest url
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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 .