Three engineers or geologists examine a rock face after the collapse of the Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Three engineers or geologists examine a rock face after the collapse of the Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (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
- Three engineers of geologists stand at a rock wall of San Francisquito Canyon. One of the men is holding a pick hitting the rock. 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
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3701_G1276
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1sv3gq0
- 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