Norwalk bridge spanning the San Gabriel River swollen with rainstorm flooding, [Norwalk?], 1927

Title: Norwalk bridge spanning the San Gabriel River swollen with rainstorm flooding, [Norwalk?], 1927
Date Created: February 16, 1927
Date: 1927-02-16
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Text from newspaper caption for another image of the Norwalk bridge during this storm: Valiant effforts to save the Norwalk bridge over the San Gabriel from the rampaging waters were being made late yesterday. Photo shows a truck employed in removing debris obstructing channel. (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3]
View of theNorwalk bridge with wooden trusses spanning the San Gabriel River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm. The bridge is occupied by onlookers and a truck covered with a tarp. On the right, 2 trees are submerged in the river to the tops of their trunks.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Floods, L.A. River [identification is not correct]

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Floods--California--Los Angeles County
Storms--California--Los Angeles County
Bridges--California--Los Angeles County
Rivers--California--Los Angeles County
Los Angeles River (Calif.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2459
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ddfr3
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