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Description:: 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.
Date:: March 13, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Image that accompanies captions in print is 114115k-2, which has not been scanned as of October 16, 2008.
Date:: December 11, 1958
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: First National Bank, two-story building with 4 columns, facade and columns heavily damaged at top, with cracks and exposed bricks at left and right
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes (1876-1951) was an American doctor and the author of Raw Food and Health. He lived in Van Nuys, California in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and had 3 children with his first wife in the 1910s, 12 children with his second wife in the 1920s and 1930s.
Date:: 1933 to 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This accident is described in Los Angeles Times article Hundreds Scramble for Free Apples When Truck Spills 700 Boxes of Them on Roosevelt Highway, November 25, 1940
Date:: November 24, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View of boardwalk or business district near Ocean Park and Lick piers, with damaged businesses in foreground, crowd of people in midground, damaged amusements, smoke, and stream of water from fire hose in background
Date:: January 6, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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