Dump truck dropping rocks to protect beach houses threated by tide, Newport Beach, 1934

Title: Dump truck dropping rocks to protect beach houses threated by tide, Newport Beach, 1934
Date Created: 1934
Date: 1934
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: This photograph appears with the article “Tides Bring New Peril, Pilings Smashed From Pier, Property Damage Increases as Oceanic Disturbance Pounds Beach Front, Film People Aid Residents in Erecting Barricades Against Rising Seas.” Los Angeles Times, 7 Sept. 1934
Beach house with foundation undermined, shored up by boards, with dump truck depositing load of rock at right, about 6 people observing at center, 2 children in foreground, other houses in background
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Newport Beach
Text from newspaper caption: Halting New Inroads by Pounding Seas. Scene in Newport Beach, where foot of Twenty-sixth street has been washed away by tides. Truckloads of rock are being dumped in an attempt to prevent further destruction by pounding of the waves.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Newport Beach (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.610875
Latitude: -117.931084
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Dump trucks--California--Newport Beach
Transportation
Stilt houses--California--Newport Beach
Environment

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0512
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d9ss3
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Rights Country: US
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