Workers using a tractor to clear debris after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif), 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Workers using a tractor to clear debris after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, 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
- View of workers using tractors to clear flood debris, including dead trees and a ruined building, after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928. 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.
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_G1274
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1xm47d8
- Manifest url
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