Elderly residents gathering belongings after a catastrophic flood, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Elderly residents gathering belongings after a catastrophic flood, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
- Date Created
- January 1934
- Date
- 1934-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark take stock of their belongings after heavy storms bring devestating floods to the Montrose and La Crescenta area. The flood left 42 dead and 72 missing in its immediate aftermath, with an estimated $5 million in property damages (at 1934 prices). Some six hundred families were left in need of aid after the flooding. The storms also caused flooding in the Venice area of Los Angeles.
In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La CaƱada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Clark, Henry, Mrs.
Clark, Henry - Location
- La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00254371
- Manifest url
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 .