Workers with sandbags near the Santa Clara River after the flooding caused by the Saint Francis Dam collapse, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Workers with sandbags near the Santa Clara River after the flooding caused by the Saint Francis Dam collapse, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
- Date Created
- March 1928
- Date
- 1928-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- 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.
- Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Dam, Saint Francis.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
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glass plate negatives
news photographs - Location
- Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Saint Francis Dam Failure, Calif., 1928
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3701_G1277
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1p32r2w
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US