Automobiles drive through flooded streets caused by heavy rainstorms, January 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Automobiles drive through flooded streets caused by heavy rainstorms, January 1940
- Date Created
- between January 8 and January 10, 1940
- Date
- 1940-01-08/1940-01-10
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Cars attempt to navigate flooding at W. 54th and 5th Avenue after disastrous storms in January of 1940. The heavy rainstorms halted traffic and caused highway and bridge damage. At least three died and many were treated for injuries
- Caption
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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 54th & 5 ave
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Disasters - Floods - following Jan. 1940 storm; Bellona Creek; West 7th St.; Slauson and Sepulveda; Manchester and Vermont; Roosevelt Highway
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Weather
Floods--California--Los Angeles
Transportation
Disaster
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025gv95
- 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 .