Rescue teams searching the flood plain after St. Francis Dam disaster, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Title: Rescue teams searching the flood plain after St. Francis Dam disaster, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
Date Created: March 1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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.

Genre: news photographs
Subjects: Search and rescue operations--California
Dam failures--California--San Francisquito Canyon
Disaster
Saint Francis Dam Failure, Calif., 1928
Flood damage--California--Santa Clara River Valley
Environment
Location: Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclalat_1429_b3700_G1245
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002nztm
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