Heavy seas batter the waterfront at Redondo Beach, January 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Heavy seas batter the waterfront at Redondo Beach, January 1940
- Date Created
- January 1940
- Date
- 1940-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Heavy seas on the waterfront at Redondo Beach. In January 1940 the southern stretch of Santa Monica Bay was battered by 25-foot waves, caused by a combination of heavy rain and a mysterious sea disturbance allegedly caused by a submarine. Waves caused damage to shorefront property and at least one person was reported injured.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: Heavy Sea along beach at - Redondo Beach (Jan. 1940)
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Redondo Beach Hi Tide
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- Redondo Beach (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Waterfronts--California--Redondo Beach
Weather
Environment
Storms--California--Redondo Beach
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025gt01
- 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 .